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The Collector

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099470472

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 244g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Collector

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EVIE WYLD

'There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that its author is a master storyteller' New York Times

Weird, withdrawn, and unloved, Fred is a young collector of butterflies. One day his eye alights on a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda, and an obsession starts to form. So when Fred wins some money he decides to use the money to compensate for his unfair start and to get what he really wants - Miranda. If she could only get to know him she might start to love him. And so with the meticulous attention to detail of an experienced collector he calmly plans her abduction.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099470472

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 244g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • He has a magnificent narrative gift...brilliant

    Independent

  • A brilliant, unusual theme... Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones

    Sunday Times

  • Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power

    Sunday Times

  • No book will make you appreciate the great outdoors more than this creepy locked-room horror story

    Guardian

  • There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that its author is a master storyteller

    New York Times

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About the Author

John Fowles

John Fowles was born in 1926. He won international recognition with The Collector, his first published title, in 1963. He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power, and this reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works: The Aristos, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa, and A Maggot. John Fowles died in Lyme Regis in 2005. Two volumes of his Journals have recently been published; the first in 2003, the second in 2006.

John Fowles

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