The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles. The plot explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Wo
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The Cobb at Lyme Regis, near where Charles and Ernestina first encounter Sarah.
Ammonite fossils on the beach near Lyme Regis. The narrator often reflects on Smithson's fascination with science and natural history, while referring to the fossils found near Lyme Regis
The Collector
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The Collector is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the
The French Lieutenant's Woman
…authority in Victorian literature, both following and critiquing many of the conventions of period novels. The book was the author's third, after The Collector (1963), and The Magus (1965). American Libraries magazine counted the novel among the "Notable Books of 1969". Subsequent to its initial popularity…
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