The Collector
by John Fowles
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WHEN she was home from her boarding-school I used to see her almost every day sometimes, because their house was right opposite the Town Hall Annexe.
About this book
Fowles’ stunning debut is a study of a lonely young sociopath who kidnaps the woman he has fixated on, keeping her in his cellar in the belief that she will eventually come to love him. The story is narrated in turns by the young man and his captive, giving two opposing points of view.
Themes & subjects
English Horror talesButterfliesCollection and preservationFictionKidnappingPsychopaths
First published 1983Setting
England1960s
About the author
John Fowles
1926 – 2005
John Robert Fowles was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
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