The Collector by John Fowles - ISBN: 9780099470472
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He collects butterflies. She’s his next specimen. Can he keep her?

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    304 pages

  • Release Date

    1 April 2004

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Summary

Three of John Fowles’ most popular novels, rejacketed with a vibrant new modern design

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EVIE WYLD

‘There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that its author is a master storyteller’ New York Times

Weird, withdrawn, and unloved, Fred is a young collector of butterflies. One day his eye alights on a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda, and an obsession starts to form. So when Fred wins some money he decides to use the mon…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099470472
ISBN-10:0099470470
Author:John Fowles, Evie Wyld
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:1 April 2004
Weight:230g
Dimensions:20mm x 129mm x 197mm
Series:Vintage Classics
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The Collector by John Fowles - ISBN: 9780099470472
129 × 197 mm
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What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Brilliant. An artist of great imaginative power.” -Sunday Times

He has a magnificent narrative gift…brilliant * Independent *
A brilliant, unusual theme… Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones * Sunday Times *
Brilliant…an artist of great imaginative power * Sunday Times *
No book will make you appreciate the great outdoors more than this creepy locked-room horror story * Guardian *
There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that its author is a master storyteller * New York Times *

About The Author

John Fowles

John Fowles (Author)

John Fowles was born in 1926. He won international recognition with The Collector, his first published title, in 1963. He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power, and this reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works: The Aristos, The Magus, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa, and A Maggot. John Fowles died in Lyme Regis in 2005. Two volumes of his Journals have recently been published; the first in 2003, the second in 2006.

Evie Wyld (Introducer)

Evie Wyld is the award-winning author of four novels and one graphic novel. She has won the Betty Trask Award, Miles Franklin Award, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Encore Award, Jerwood Fiction Prize and the European Union Prize. In 2013 she was included in Granta’s once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and helps run an independent bookshop in Peckham called Review.

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