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The French Lieutenant's Woman

By John Fowles

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| Paperback | 9780099478331

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Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dresContinue

Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, his book is an immaculate recreation of Victorian England. Not only is it the epic love story of two people of insight and imagination seeking escape from the cant and tyranny of their age, The French Lieutenant's Woman is also a brilliantly sustained allegory of the decline of the twentieth-century passion for freedom.

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    This has been my favourite book... for the last ten years, at least. Fowles masters the English language in a way that no-one else knows how to, going back and forth from a contemporary style to something less modern. The story is pure magic and the friendly mockery of past times is very amusing. I ... (continue)

    This has been my favourite book... for the last ten years, at least. Fowles masters the English language in a way that no-one else knows how to, going back and forth from a contemporary style to something less modern. The story is pure magic and the friendly mockery of past times is very amusing. I have read it three times from start to finish and I have read bits of it here and there an infinite number of times.

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  • A friend lent me this book. I found it really funny in its mockery of the XIXth century fiction.

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