The French Lieutenant's Woman

John Fowles

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Published by Vintage Classics, part of Vintage Publishing

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EAN: 9780099560982
Published: 1 Mar 2012

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An epic love story of two people of insight and imagination seeking escape from the cant and tyranny of their age. To the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, John Fowles immaculately recreates Victorian England in the greatest of his novels, which has been the subject of universal acclaim since its first publication.

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You can read this book again and again, always finding something new and always falling in love with the hapless Charles
- Daily Mail

A brilliant success... It is a passionate piece of writing as well as an immaculate example of storytelling
- Financial Times

Compulsively readable
- Irish Times

A splendid, lucid, profoundly satisfying work of art, a book which I want almost immediately to read again
- New Statesman

Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power
- Sunday Times

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About the Author

John Fowles was born in England in 1926 and educated at Bedford School and Oxford University. John Fowles won international recognition with his first published title. THE COLLECTOR (1963). He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power and this reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works. John Fowles died in 2005.