About John Fowles

John Fowles (1926-2005) was one of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century. He won international recognition with his first novel, The Collector, published in 1963.

Fowles’ classic novels The French Lieutenant’s Woman and The Magus are both on the Modern Library American readers’ poll of the 100 Best Novels of the Century—outpolling even Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. In 1981, The French Lieutenant’s Woman was turned into an acclaimed film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons.

Fowles died in 2005.

Bibliography

  • (1963) The Collector
  • (1964) The Aristos
  • (1965) The Magus
  • (1969) The French Lieutenant’s Woman
  • (1973) Poems
  • (1974) The Ebony Tower
  • (1974) Shipwreck
  • (1977) Daniel Martin
  • (1978) Islands
  • (1979) The Tree
  • (1980) The Enigma of Stonehenge
  • (1982) A Short History of Lyme Regis
  • (1982) Mantissa
  • (1985) A Maggot
  • (1985) Land (with Fay Godwin)
  • (1990) Lyme Regis Camera
  • (1998) Wormholes – Essays and Occasional Writings
  • (2003) The Journals – Volume 1
  • (2006) The Journals – Volume 2

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