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 · The Collector by John Fowles is about a man named Frederick Clegg, a lonesome person who recently wins the lottery. He is socially strange, and loves to collect butterflies. He develops an obsession for a young, blonde, beautiful, 20 year-old art student named Miranda. After he stalks her for a while, he decides to buy.  · The Collector by John Fowles is a vividly cerebral portrait of a serial killer and is narrated from the murderer's perspective, as well as partially from the victim's point of .  · John Fowles is a well-known British author ( – ) who has dedicated his life to the world of literature. His first novel, The Collector, published in , has been reprinted several times and has been translated into many languages, thus proving .


The Collector by John Fowles This is not a feel good book. Nor is it one that I think anyone would say they had 'fun' reading. It is dark, it is blunt, and extremely compelling. This is one of the books that make me wonder how an author can do so much with so few pages. It is a concise narrative of obsession gone too far. The Collector. The Magus. The French Lieutenant's Woman. John Robert Fowles (/ faʊlz /; 31 March - 5 November ) 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. Discussion of themes and motifs in John Fowles' The Collector. eNotes critical analyses help you gain a deeper understanding of The Collector so you can excel on your essay or test.


The Collector is a thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhouse. Divided in two sections, the novel contains both the perspective of the captor, Frederick, and that of Miranda, the captive. The Collector is the first novel by John Fowles, whose multilayered fiction frequently explores the tensions between free will and the constraints of society, even as it plays with traditional novelistic conventions, and challenges readers to find their own interpretations. “We all want things we can’t have.” (John Fowles, The Collector) John Fowles is a well-known British author ( – ) who has dedicated his life to the world of literature. His first novel, The Collector, published in , has been reprinted several times and has been translated into many languages, thus proving that Fowles’s early works are still of interest to the public.

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