John Fowles (1926–2005)
Autor/a de La dona del tinent francès
Sobre l'autor
John Fowles was born in Essex, England, in 1926. He attended the University of Edinburgh for a short time, left to serve in the Royal Marines, and then returned to school at Oxford University, where he received a B.A. in French in 1950. Fowles taught English in France and Greece, as well as at St. mostra'n més Godric's College in London. Although the main theme in all Fowles's fiction is freedom, there are few other similarities in his books. He has deliberately chosen to explore a different style or genre for each novel: The Collector, his first novel, is an intellectual thriller; The Magus is an adolescent learning novel, tracing the emotional development of the central character; Daniel Martin tries, in the modernist style, to depict psychological reality; Mantissa is a comedic allegory that takes place entirely inside the narrator's head; Maggot combines mystery, science fiction, and history; and The Ebony Tower is a collection of short stories. Fowles explored yet another genre, historical fiction, with his best-known novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, which received the W. H. Smith Literary Award in 1970 and was made into a movie, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, in 1981. An intriguing feature of this novel is that it has three different endings. Fowles's nonfiction includes Aristos: A Self Portrait in Ideas; Poems; and Wormholes: Essays and Other Occasional Writings. In addition, he has written the text for several books of photographs, including The Tree, for which Fowles received the Christopher Award in 1982. He died on November 5, 2005 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Sèrie
Obres de John Fowles
The Ebony Tower. Eliduc. The Enigma 8 exemplars
Magus 3 exemplars
Rare Antique THE COLLECTOR John Fowles FIRST BOOK 1st Edition First Print NOVEL 1963 Fiction 1 exemplars
John Fowles: The Collector, The Magus & The French Lieutenant’s Woman: Three BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2022) 1 exemplars
The Collector by John Fowles (1963-12-05) 1 exemplars
The French Liutenant's Woman 1 exemplars
The Man Who Made Wine 1 exemplars
Eliduc 1 exemplars
The Cloud 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Col·laborador — 82 exemplars
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Col·laborador — 72 exemplars
Hawker of Morwenstow: Portrait of an Eccentric Victorian (1975) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 20 exemplars
William Golding: The Man and His Books - A Tribute on His 75th Birthday (1986) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
John Aubrey's Monumenta Britannica. Parts One and Two (1982) — Editor, algunes edicions — 11 exemplars
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Monumenta Britannica, or, A miscellany of British antiquities (1980) — Editor, algunes edicions — 5 exemplars
The Ebony Tower [1984 TV film] — Autor — 4 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Fowles, John
- Nom oficial
- Fowles, John Robert
- Data de naixement
- 1926-03-31
- Data de defunció
- 2005-11-05
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Groot-Brittannië
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- England, UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Leigh upon Sea, Essex, England, Uk
- Lloc de defunció
- Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
- Llocs de residència
- Leighton-at-Sea, Essex, GB
Lyme Regis, Dorset, GB - Educació
- Bedford School, Bedford, England
Oxford University (New College) - Professions
- writer
- Premis i honors
- Times 50 Top Writers Since 1945 (30)
- Biografia breu
- John Fowles, geboren in 1926, studeerde aan de universiteit van Oxford, waar hij later Frans doceerde. Op zesendertigjarige leeftijd werd hij plotseling beroemd door het succes van zijn eerste roman The Collector (1963). Zijn faam werd nog bevestigd door de verfilming van dit eerste boek en door de twee lijvige romans die volgden: The Magus (De magiër, 1966) en The French Lietenant’s Woman (Het liefje van de Franse luitenant, 1969). Vooral dit laatste boek bezorgde Fowles in de Verenigde Staten een ongekend grote populariteit. In 1974 verscheen Fowles’ tot nu toe laatste boek, de novellenbundel The Ebony Tower (De ebbehouten toren). Fowles woont tegenwoordig in de Zuid-engelse badplaats Lyme Regis, waar zich ook een groot gedeelte van Het liefje van de Franse luitenant afspeelt (flaptekst).
Membres
Converses
June Group Read: The Magus (John Fowles) a 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (juliol 2016)
Group Read, November 2015: The Collector a 1001 Books to read before you die (novembre 2015)
1001 Group Read - June, 2013: The French Lieutenant's Woman a 1001 Books to read before you die (novembre 2013)
Fowles' The Magus a Someone explain it to me... (març 2010)
Ressenyes
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Five star books (2)
Favourite Books (2)
Page Turners (1)
Existentialism (1)
Europe (1)
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Elegant Prose (1)
Sense of place (1)
Magic Realism (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
Victorian Period (1)
My TBR (2)
A Novel Cure (2)
Unread books (3)
1960s (1)
Read These Too (1)
Metafiction (1)
Favourite Books (1)
2005-2010 (1)
United Kingdom (1)
Premis
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 45
- També de
- 21
- Membres
- 23,785
- Popularitat
- #882
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 417
- ISBN
- 532
- Llengües
- 29
- Preferit
- 107