John Fowles (1926–2005)
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John Fowles was born in Essex, England, in 1926. He attended the University of Edinburgh for a short time, left to serve in the Royal Marines, and then returned to school at Oxford University, where he received a B.A. in French in 1950. Fowles taught English in France and Greece, as well as at St. vis mere Godric's College in London. Although the main theme in all Fowles's fiction is freedom, there are few other similarities in his books. He has deliberately chosen to explore a different style or genre for each novel: The Collector, his first novel, is an intellectual thriller; The Magus is an adolescent learning novel, tracing the emotional development of the central character; Daniel Martin tries, in the modernist style, to depict psychological reality; Mantissa is a comedic allegory that takes place entirely inside the narrator's head; Maggot combines mystery, science fiction, and history; and The Ebony Tower is a collection of short stories. Fowles explored yet another genre, historical fiction, with his best-known novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, which received the W. H. Smith Literary Award in 1970 and was made into a movie, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, in 1981. An intriguing feature of this novel is that it has three different endings. Fowles's nonfiction includes Aristos: A Self Portrait in Ideas; Poems; and Wormholes: Essays and Other Occasional Writings. In addition, he has written the text for several books of photographs, including The Tree, for which Fowles received the Christopher Award in 1982. He died on November 5, 2005 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Serier
Værker af John Fowles
The Ebony Tower. Eliduc. The Enigma 8 eksemplarer
Magus 3 eksemplarer
Rare Antique THE COLLECTOR John Fowles FIRST BOOK 1st Edition First Print NOVEL 1963 Fiction 1 eksemplar
John Fowles: The Collector, The Magus & The French Lieutenant’s Woman: Three BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2022) 1 eksemplar
The Collector by John Fowles (1963-12-05) 1 eksemplar
The French Liutenant's Woman 1 eksemplar
The Man Who Made Wine 1 eksemplar
Eliduc 1 eksemplar
The Cloud 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Bidragyder — 82 eksemplarer
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Bidragyder — 72 eksemplarer
Hawker of Morwenstow: Portrait of an Eccentric Victorian (1975) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 20 eksemplarer
William Golding: The Man and His Books - A Tribute on His 75th Birthday (1986) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
John Aubrey's Monumenta Britannica. Parts One and Two (1982) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 12 eksemplarer
Monumenta Britannica, or, A miscellany of British antiquities (1980) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 5 eksemplarer
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
The Ebony Tower [1984 TV film] — Forfatter — 5 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Fowles, John
- Juridisk navn
- Fowles, John Robert
- Fødselsdato
- 1926-03-31
- Dødsdag
- 2005-11-05
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Groot-Brittannië
- Land (til kort)
- England, UK
- Fødested
- Leigh upon Sea, Essex, England, Uk
- Dødssted
- Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
- Bopæl
- Leighton-at-Sea, Essex, GB
Lyme Regis, Dorset, GB - Uddannelse
- Bedford School, Bedford, England
Oxford University (New College) - Erhverv
- writer
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Times 50 Top Writers Since 1945 (30)
- Kort biografi
- John Fowles, geboren in 1926, studeerde aan de universiteit van Oxford, waar hij later Frans doceerde. Op zesendertigjarige leeftijd werd hij plotseling beroemd door het succes van zijn eerste roman The Collector (1963). Zijn faam werd nog bevestigd door de verfilming van dit eerste boek en door de twee lijvige romans die volgden: The Magus (De magiër, 1966) en The French Lietenant’s Woman (Het liefje van de Franse luitenant, 1969). Vooral dit laatste boek bezorgde Fowles in de Verenigde Staten een ongekend grote populariteit. In 1974 verscheen Fowles’ tot nu toe laatste boek, de novellenbundel The Ebony Tower (De ebbehouten toren). Fowles woont tegenwoordig in de Zuid-engelse badplaats Lyme Regis, waar zich ook een groot gedeelte van Het liefje van de Franse luitenant afspeelt (flaptekst).
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Discussions
June Group Read: The Magus (John Fowles) i 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (juli 2016)
Group Read, November 2015: The Collector i 1001 Books to read before you die (november 2015)
1001 Group Read - June, 2013: The French Lieutenant's Woman i 1001 Books to read before you die (november 2013)
Fowles' The Magus i Someone explain it to me... (marts 2010)
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