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Mantissa

Mantissa

by John Fowles

1982FictionMale authorsMenCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)Sexual behavior
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IT was conscious of a luminous and infinite haze, as if it were floating, godlike, alpha and omega, over a sea of vapor and looking down; then less happily, after an interval of obscure duration, of murmured sounds and peripheral shadows, which reduced the impression of boundless space and empire to something much more contracted and unaccommodating.

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FictionMale authorsMenCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)Sexual behaviorBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
First published 1982

About the author

John Fowles
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.

Author

John Fowles

First published

1982

Pages

195

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

15

Languages

English, French, Russian

Publisher

Penguin Random House

ISBN

9780099530282

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