John Fowles's works of fiction include The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Mantissa, and
A Maggot. He is also the author of The Aristos: A Self-Portrait of Ideas, Poems, Shipwreck, Islands, and The Enigma
of Stonehenge. He lives in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.
Review
" miracle of sorts....An absorbingly dramatic love story...and a virtuoso stylistic performance."
-Edward T. Chase, New Republic
"Dazzling...audacious...highly rewarding....A remarkable, original work in which at least two visions operate
simultaneously, the one Victorian and melodramatic, the other modern and wise. An outlandish achievement!"
-Joyce Carol Oates, Washington Post Book World
"A dazzler...dark and powerful....Impossible to put down."
-Cosmopolitan
"A wonder of contemporary fiction....It meets the simplest, oldest, and least fashionable test of excellence.
You never want it to end."
-Webster Schott, Life
Time Warner Bookmark Web Site, June, 2000
Summary
In a feat of seductive storytelling, John Fowles immerses us in the emotionally charged world of a Victorian
love triangle and, through a startling act of literary invention, reveals the image of modern man reflected in
the past. The French Lieutenant's Woman is perhaps the most beloved of Fowles's internationally bestselling novels;
it is universally regarded as a modern classic.
