Twelve kinds of taste
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English Horror tales, Butterflies, Collection and preservation, Fiction
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.
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Intimate, bleak, contemplative and spare.
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On Open Library, 21 have read it and 185 want to.
“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.”
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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Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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“Is this John Fowles's best work?”
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“Is The Collector a masterpiece, not merely a very good book?”
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