Wormholes
  • Published: 19 November 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099272724
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $35.00

Wormholes

Essays and Occasional Writings

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19 Nov 1999
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A rich and varied collection of essays and writings from the internationally-acclaimed author of The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman.

Here, for the first time, is a riveting collection of Fowles's fugitive and intensely personal writings composed sinced 1963, ranging from essays and literary criticism to commentaries, autobiographical statements, memoirs and musings. Wormholes is a delicious sampling of the various matters that have plagued, preoccupied, or delighted Fowles throughout his life; it is a rich mine of essays as art and a `geography' of the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists.
  • Published: 19 November 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099272724
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $35.00
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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 Journals
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Daniel Martin
The Journals Volume 1
The Tree
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Praise for Wormholes

Fowles's mind is as lively, tangy and quirkily textured as Stilton

Observer

A splendidly uplifting book

Richard Mabey

Anyone familiar with books such as The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus will already know that Fowles is a perceptive and intelligent writer, but this collection shows him to be as fascinating and entertaining in his non-fiction as he is in his novels. Indeed, Wormholes is something of an embarassment of riches, there are so many marvellous things in here

Hampstead & Highgate Express

John Fowles is a magnificent novelist who has written two masterpieces but who has a reluctance to give precise endings to his stories... In the wise and beautifully written essays and biographical pieces of Wormholes he indicates why this is so

Daily Telegraph
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