
In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, …

Daniel Martin is a novel by John Fowles. It was first published in 1977 and can be taken as a Bildungsroman, following the life of the eponymous protagonist. The novel uses both first and third person voices, whilst employing a variety of literary techniques such as multiple narratives and flashback. The author …

Il collezionista è un romanzo di John Fowles. È un romanzo di stampo post-freudiano, raccontato, nella prima parte, attraverso un io narrante represso e dalla mente contorta, Frederick Clegg; si scoprirà più oltre che Clegg ha anche gravi problemi di impotenza. Il narratore-protagonista, semplice impiegato municipale, …