Wormholes (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Fowles
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Culture, Nature, Self, Literature, Writing, Novelists, Creative process, Societies
Readers drawn to John Fowles’s novels since his first, The Collector, was published in 1963 will welcome this gathering of essays written over the following decades. Fowles’s novels vary considerably in style and subject matter, from the eerie horror of The Collector to the dazzlingly labyrinthine plotting of The Magus (1965, revised 1978); from his 1969 The French Lieutenant’s Woman’s twentieth century construction of Victorian relationships between men and women, to 1985’s A Maggot’s stranger evocation of seventeenth century Protestant...
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