John Fowles - Novels, Poetry, Essays and Journals (17 books)

JOHN FOWLES (1926–2005) was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism.  His allusive and descriptive works combine psychological probings — chiefly of sex and love — with an interest in social and philosophical issues.  His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others, and a number of his books have been adapted as films.

His first novel, THE COLLECTOR (1963), was an eerily plausible portrait of a psychopath who kidnaps a young woman out of what he imagines is love, telling the story from the two characters' opposing points of view until, at the end, the narratives converge with a shocking immediacy.  This was followed by THE ARISTOS: A SELF-PORTRAIT IN IDEAS (1964), a collection of essays reflecting Fowles's views on such subjects as evolution, art, and politics.  He returned to fiction with THE MAGUS (1965, rev. 1977), which became an instant best-seller.  Set on a Greek island, the book centres on an English schoolteacher who befriends a reclusive millionaire and is drawn into a mysterious game of violence, seduction, and betrayal, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish past from present, fantasy from reality.

THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN (1969) was also released to critical and popular success, and established Fowles' international reputation.  Set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, where Fowles lived for much of his life, it features one of the most enigmatic female characters in literary history.  He combined the melodrama of a 19th-century Victorian novel with the sensibility of a 20th-century postmodern narrator, offering his readers two alternative endings from which to choose and at one point boldly inserting himself into the book as a character who accompanies the hero on a train to London.

His later fictional works include THE EBONY TOWER (1974), a collection of five novellas and short stories with interlacing themes; DANIEL MARTIN (1977), a long and autobiographical novel spanning over 40 years in the life of a screenwriter; MANTISSA (1982), a fable about a novelist's struggle with his muse; and A MAGGOT (1985), centred on a group of travelers in the 1700s and the mysterious events that occur during their journey.

Fowles's poetic work includes two major sequences ("Apollo" and "Mycenae") that draw on his fascination with Greek mythology.  He was always interested in verse translation and adaptation, and the SELECTED POEMS (2012) includes his translations of Martial, Catullus, Li Po and the eighth-century Man'yoshu, Japan's oldest poetry compilation.  He also translated OURIKA, a nineteenth-century tale based on a true story that relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic family during the French Revolution.

WORMHOLES (1998) is a representative gathering of Fowles's less well-known and intensely personal non-fiction: essays, literary criticism, commentaries, autobiographical statements, memoirs, and musings.  THE TREE (1979) is a provocative meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity, and a powerful argument against taming the wild.  His JOURNALS (2003-07), covering the years from 1949 to 1990, reveal not only the creative development of a great writer but also the deep connection between Fowles's autobiographical experience and his literary inspiration.


The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:

== FICTION ==

* Collector, The (Little, Brown, 1963/2012) -- ePUB + PDF^
* Daniel Martin (Little, Brown, 1997/2012) -- ePUB + PDF^
* Daniel Martin (Vintage, 2004)
* Ebony Tower, The (Little, Brown, 2013)
* Ebony Tower, The (Vintage, 2006)
* French Lieutenant's Woman, The (Little, Brown, 2012)
* French Lieutenant's Woman, The (Vintage, 2010)
* Maggot, A (Little, Brown, 2013)
* Magus, The (Little, Brown, 2012)
* Magus, The (Modern Library, 1998) -- PDF^
* Magus, The (Pan, 1985)
* Magus, The (Vintage, 2004)
* Mantissa (Little, Brown, 2013)

== POETRY ==

* Selected Poems (Flambard, 2012).  A. Thorpe, ed.

== JOURNALS & NON-FICTION ==

* Aristos, The (Little, Brown, 1964) -- ePUB + PDF^
* Aristos, The [revised edition] (Bantam, 1970) -- PDF^
* Journals, Vol. 1: 1949-1965 (Knopf, 2003).  C. Drazin, ed. — ePUB + PDF^
* Journals, Vol. 2: 1966-1990 (Vintage, 2011).  C. Drazin, ed.
* Short History of Lyme Regis, A (Little, Brown, 1982) -- PDF
* Tree, The (Ecco, 2010) — ePUB + PDF^
* Wormholes: Essays & Occasional Writings (Cape, 1998). J. Relf, ed. -- ePUB + PDF^

== TRANSLATIONS ==

* Ourika by Claire de Duras [trans. Fowles] (MLA, 1994) -- PDF^

PDF^ courtesy of Mohamed5438

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