The French Lieutenant's Woman
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0081BTNOY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cphe said The French Lieutenants Woman. I know that I read this one many years ago but couldn't remember very much about it. I appreciated it more with this second reading many years later. An unusual delivery with the story set in Victorian times with a modern day twist. Charles Smithson, a man torn between his marriage, duty to Ernestina and his lust for the more earthy and forbidden Sarah Woodruff, the French Lieutenants Woman. Poor Charles torn between his wallet, position and his hear. "Bold and beautiful writing from a 'Writer's Writer'" according to T. Kaye. One of my all-time, Top Bold and beautiful writing from a 'Writer's Writer' One of my all-time, Top 3 Books, along with 'Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' and 'Lord of Light.' The common thread of these is deep & subtle ideas rendered in taut, beautiful language. Caveat: not for casual readers seeking a-thrill-a-minute. Be prepared to stretch your mind.. Books, along with 'Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' and 'Lord of Light.' The common thread of these is deep & subtle ideas rendered in taut, beautiful language. Caveat: not for casual readers seeking a-thrill-a-minute. Be prepared to stretch your mind.. A Customer said In my memories, one of my favorite books.. In college, I loved this book. Since then, much has changed. I've gotten married, and havethree kids, a big mortgage, etc.Oh well, forget all that for a moment. This is still a great book. It brings you back into the time of Victorian England with such vivid detail that you feel like you've just visited the place. The prose is wonderfully poetic, but never falls in love with itself. The plot is the classic tale of the Mysterious Woman, beautiful, for
Novel by John Fowles, published in 1969. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature. The author, who continually intrudes on the narration, presents three different endings, encouraging his readers to reach their own conclusions. He is engaged to Ernestina Freeman, a conventional, wealthy woman, but he breaks off the engagement after a series of clandestine trysts with the beautiful, mysterious Sarah Woodruff, a social outcast known locally as the forsaken lover of a French lieutenant. The plot centers on Charles Smithson, an amateur Victorian paleontologist. A pastiche of a historical romance, it juxtaposes the ethos of the Victorian characters living in 1867 with the ironic commentary of the author writing in 1967
John Fowles (1926-2005) was educated at Oxford and subsequently lectured in English at universities in Greece and the UK. . Fowles spent the last decades of his life on the southern coast of England in the small harbor town of Lyme Regis. His books include the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and Daniel Martin. The success of his first n
Perhaps the most beloved of John Fowles's internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel. "Filled with enchanting mysteries and magically erotic possibilities" (New York Times), the novel inspired the hugely successful 1981 film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons and is today universally regarded as a modern classic.