The Journals Volume 1
  • Published: 3 January 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099443421
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $49.99

The Journals Volume 1

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'The book is gripping, and one can't help feeling that Fowles was writing what may come to be seen as one of the very best of his works' - Literary Review

In 1963 John Fowles won international recognition with his first published novel The Collector. But his roots as a serious writer can be traced back long before to the journal he began as a student at Oxford in the late 1940s and continued to keep faithfully over the next half century. Written with an unsparing honesty and forthrightness, it reveals the inner thoughts and creative development of one of the twentieth century's most innovative and important novelists.

This first-hand account of the road to fame and fortune holds the reader's attention with all the narrative power of the novels, but also offers an invaluable insight into the intimate relationship between Fowles's own life and his fiction.
  • Published: 3 January 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099443421
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $49.99
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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.

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Praise for The Journals Volume 1

His intellectual perseverance and artistic integrity... remain impressive to the end

Observer

He is sharp when speaking about his own fiction, and the section dealing with The Collector will no doubt be required reading for all students of Fowles

Scotland on Sunday

This journal is fascinating, full of stimulating thoughts about aesthetics, national identity and the changing function of literature in post-war Europe

Daily Telegraph

Fowles is an artist of great imaginative power

Sunday Times

These extraordinary diaries... should help bring about his richly deserved resuscitation

Spectator

Fans of The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman are in for a treat

Time Out
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