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Jul 11, 2024 · John Fowles > Quotes > Quotable Quote. (?) “It came to me…that I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there.
Jun 24, 2024 · John Fowles — ‘I don't believe in God. And I certainly don't feel chosen.I think you may be.I smiled dubiously. Thank you.It is not meant as ...
The ending of The French Lieutenant's Woman seemed just a clever trick. Surely readers have also been aware that authors make choices about endings; and endings have been changed before, including that of King Lear in the 18th century. Fowles certainly didn't seem to me highly experimental or postmodern -- not even a real modernist!
Jun 19, 2024 · John Fowles The Magus — ‘The profoundest distances are never geographical.’
Jul 1, 2024 · In this evocative documentary, celebrated British author John Fowles invites viewers to explore the connection between art and life through the lens of his own relationship with Dorset, the English county that served as the setting for his novels The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus.
Jul 8, 2024 · Ben Macintyre and Charles Cummings both recommend spy thrillers. Our interviewees have chosen a very wide range of books, but some thrillers come up multiple times, including The Silence of The Lambs by Thomas Harris, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan.
Jun 24, 2024 · Photographs taken of shipwrecks off the Cornish coast and the Scilly Isles, taken by the Gibson family, from the 19th century to the Torrey Canyon disaster of 1967.
4 days ago · Of great interest to Victorians, this subject often appears in neo-Victorian novels including those by such well-known authors as John Fowles, A. S. Byatt, Graham Swift, and Mathew Kneale. This book discusses novels in which nineteenth-century science, including geology, paleontology, and evolutionary theory, interacts with religion ...
Jul 11, 2024 · When a novel—like Joyce’s Ulysses or John Updike’s Centaur (1963) or Anthony Burgess’ Vision of Battlements (1965)—is based on an existing classical myth, there is an intention of either ennobling a lowly subject matter, satirizing a debased set of values by referring them to a heroic age, or merely providing a basic structure to hold ...
Jul 12, 2024 · The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland.
