The Journals
  • Published: 1 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099443438
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $44.99

The Journals

Volume 2

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A major literary landmark: the second volume of one of the most extraordinary journals of our time.

The first volume of John Fowles's Journals ended with him achieving international literary renown after the publication of The Collector and The Magus, and leaving London behind to live in a remote house near Lyme Regis. This final volume charts the rewards and struggles of his continuing literary career, but at the same time reveals the often reluctant celebrity behind the outward success.

Enjoying a reputation as one of the world's leading novelists, Fowles wins enormous wealth, kudos and attention, has the satisfaction of seeing The French Lieutenant's Woman turned into a highly acclaimed Hollywood film, but none the less comes to regard his fame with deep ambivalence.

It cannot repair the growing strains between himself and his wife Elizabeth, who does not share his taste for rural isolation, nor can it cure the disenchantment he feels for an increasingly materialist society.

This concluding volume of the Journals marks a writer's continuing quest for wisdom and self-understanding.
  • Published: 1 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099443438
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $44.99
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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.

Also by John Fowles

Magus
Mantissa
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Daniel Martin
The Journals Volume 1
The Tree
The Aristos
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Praise for The Journals

John Fowles's journals...make a fascinating document

Observer

I haven't enjoyed a new book so much in years

Benjamin Markovits, Daily Telegraph

Compulsively, brilliantly insufferable

Time Out

Fowles regarded his journals... as his 'last novel'... It is hard to disagree with the claim... Remarkable

Hal Jensen, Times Literary Supplement

What an extraordinarily acute and gifted writer Fowles was... A haunting book

Daily Mail

Compelling... It's the quality of the writing that makes the book so memorable

Daily Mail

These miraculously faultless records are as impressive as The French Lieutenant's Woman

Literary Review
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