Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings

John Fowles's place in English literary canon has been assured for several decades. His non-fiction writings are less well known, however, in part because they have appeared in periodicals or academic journals, or as forewords or introductions to the authors work. Here, for the first time, is a representative gathering of Fowles's fugitive and intensely personal writings. Wormholes covers the period from 1963 and the appearance of Fowles's first novel, The Collector, to the present. It represents the writer's developing views on the art of fiction, and the relationship of literature to life and morality, throughout the mature, fertile period of his career. Wormholes is a delicious sampling of the various matters that have plagued, preoccupied, or delighted Fowles throughout his life. Not only is it a rich mine of essays as art, it is also a 'geography' of the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists.

Wormholes : Essays and Occasional Writings

Literature & Fiction

John. Fowles

Essays & Correspondence

Vintage Books

The Tree

Vintage

In 1963 john fowles won international recognition with his first published novel the collector but his roots as a serious writer can be traced back long before to the journal he began as a student at oxford in the late 1940s and continued to keep faithfully over the next half century written with an unsparing honesty and forthrightness, it reveals the inner thoughts and creative development of one of the twentieth centurys most innovative and important novelists this first-hand account of the road to fame and fortune holds the readers attention with all the narrative power of the novels, but also offers an invaluable insight into the intimate relationship between fowless own life and his fiction

The Journals, Volume 1 (v. 1)

Biographies & Memoirs

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Daniel Martin

Set internationally and spanning three decades, "Daniel Martin" is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home to reconcile with a dying friend, and also to visit his own forgotten past in an attempt to discover himself.

Contemporary

<p>On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration of human complexities. By turns disturbing, thrilling and seductive, "The Magus" is a feast for the mind and the senses.</p>

The Magus

<p>In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that "A Maggot" began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre.</p>

A Maggot

Mantissa

Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn't remember his wife, or his children's names. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells him his memory nerve-centre is connected to sexual activity, and calls in the even shapelier Nurse Cory to assist with treatment... In the most unorthodox of hospital rooms we eavesdrop on the serious discourse, virulent abuse and hilarious mockery of the erotic guerilla war that is Mantissa.

Vintage Classic

French Lieutenant's Woman

This is an epic love story of two people of insight and imagination seeking escape from the cant and tyranny of their age. To the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, John Fowles immaculately recreates Victorian England in the greatest of his novels, which has been the subject of universal acclaim since its first publication.

Literary

Withdrawn, uneducated, and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda.When he wins the pools, he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is understand her captor, and so gain her freedom.

The Collector

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Wormholes : Essays and Occasional Writings

The Tree

The Journals, Volume 1 (v. 1)

Daniel Martin

The Magus

A Maggot

Mantissa

Mantissa

French Lieutenant's Woman

The Collector