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John Fowles
John Robert Fowles ( –) was an English novelist and essayist.
Major works
The Collector 《收藏家》 1963
The Magus《占星家》 1966
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
《法国中尉的女人》 1969
The Ebony Tower《埃伯尼塔楼》 1974
Daniel Martin《丹尼尔·马丁》 1977
Mantissa《曼蒂莎》 1982
Biography of John Fowles
John Robert Fowles was born March 31, 1926 in Essex, England.
He attended Bedford School from 13 to 18.
After briefly attending the University of Edinburgh, Fowles pulsory military service in 1945 with training at Dartmoor.
World War II ended shortly after his training began so Fowles never came bat.
Fowles then spent four years at Oxford, where he discovered the writings of the French existentialists. He received a degree in French in 1950 and began to consider a career as a writer.
Several teaching jobs followed:
a year lecturing in English literature at the University of Poitiers, France;
two years teaching English at Anargyrios College on the Greek island of Spetsai;
and finally, between 1954 and 1963, teaching English at St. Godric's College in London.
The time spent in Greece was of great importance to Fowles. During his tenure on the island he began to write poetry and to e a long-time repression about writing.
In late 1960 pleted the first draft of The Collector in just four weeks. He continued to revise it until the summer of 1962, when he submitted it to a publisher; it appeared in the spring of 1963 and was an immediate best-seller.
The Collector is a psychological thriller in which a girl, Miranda, is kidnapped by a psychologically possessive repressed clerk and butterfly-collector who keeps her as one of the many specimens of his butterfly collection. The novel ends with her death and his plans to add another specimen to his collection.