- British, English Psychological fiction, Fiction, Greece
A startlingly original novel about a young English graduate who takes a position as a teacher at a private school on a small Greek island. Bored and lonely he spends his free hours wandering alone until he meets a wealthy and mysterious neighbour. Soon he finds himself a victim of this man’s increasingly bizarre psychological games and obsessed with a young woman who may or may not be a willing participant in these games.
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Grave, intimate, open-ended and prestige.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- John Fowles
- First published
- 1965
- Pages
- 656
- Publisher
- Vintage, Little, Brown and Co., Little Brown
- Editions
- 61
- Language
- Russian, Polish, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9783548600307
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“I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents,both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.”
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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