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The Collector John Fowles Book. The collector. John Fowles 9780224602174 Books His life revolves around collecting butterflies and capturing images of nature. Synopsis of The Collector Introduction Frederick Clegg is a withdrawn clerk with an unsettling obsession

Frederick Clegg, a working class man, wins the lottery and becomes reasonably wealthy overnight.With his new money, Clegg moves to London and begins stalking Miranda, an art student from his neighborhood with whom he is obsessed.Clegg buys an isolated old house in the English countryside and remodels its cellar, making it suitable for someone to live there. The success of his first novel, The Collector, published in 1963, allowed him to devote all his time to writing.His books include the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and Daniel Martin.

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Divided in two sections, the novel contains both the perspective of the captor, Frederick, and that of Miranda, the captive. 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" by John Fowles is a haunting exploration of obsession, control, and the destructive power of delusion

THE COLLECTOR John Fowles Books. The Collector (Back Bay Books) August 4, 1997, Back Bay Books Paperback in English 0316290238 9780316290234 eeee John Fowles (1926-2005) was educated at Oxford and subsequently lectured in English at universities in Greece and the UK

The Collector by John Fowles Rare and Antique Books. Through the characters of Frederick Clegg and Miranda Grey, Fowles delves into the psychological complexities of captivity and the human desire for possession The Collector is a novel by British writer John Fowles