John Fowles

Charles Drazin

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Daniel Martin

A Maggot

The Ebony Tower

Three BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations

John Fowles: The Collector, The Magus & The French Lieutenant’s Woman

The Collector

The Magus

The French Lieutenant's Woman

A BBC Radio 4 full cast dramatisation

Mantissa

Volume 2

The Journals

The Aristos

The Tree

Essays and Occasional Writings

Wormholes

Comprising the Log of the Daniel and Henry of 1700 and Accounts of the Slave Trade From the Minor Ports of England 1698-1725

The Forgotten Trade

The Journals Volume 1

His intellectual perseverance and artistic integrity... remain impressive to the end

He is sharp when speaking about his own fiction, and the section dealing with The Collector will no doubt be required reading for all students of Fowles

This journal is fascinating, full of stimulating thoughts about aesthetics, national identity and the changing function of literature in post-war Europe

Fans of The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman are in for a treat

Fowles is an artist of great imaginative power

These extraordinary diaries... should help bring about his richly deserved resuscitation

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 century's most innovative and important novelists. 
 
This first-hand account of the road to fame and fortune holds the reader's attention with all the narrative power of the novels, but also offers an invaluable insight into the intimate relationship between Fowles's own life and his fiction.

'The book is gripping, and one can't help feeling that Fowles was writing what may come to be seen as one of the very best of his works' - Literary Review

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. Charles Drazin (External Editor, Introducer) Charles Drazin was born in Hampshire in 1960. He grew up in North London and was educated at Highgate School and Oxford University, where he read Classics. He has worked for many years as a writer and editor, and also teaches at Queen Mary, University of London. His other books include In Search of the Third Man (1999), Korda: Britain’s Only Movie Mogul (2002), The Man Who Outshone the Sun King (2008) and The Faber Book of French Cinema (2011).

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