false 56028 1 John Fowles has been compared to Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in <I>The New York Times</I> hailed him as &#147;a remarkable novelist,&#148; and the novelist John Gardner described him as &#147;the only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of a Tolstoy.&#148; Four of his works have been adapted for film, including the Academy Award-nominated <I>The French Lieutenant's Woman</I>. <P> Despite his immense critical and popular success, only now has Fowles found the capable biographer he has long deserved. In <I>John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds</I>, Eileen Warburton provides a richly detailed portrait that emphasizes his emergence as one the twentieth century's most important writers. She chronicles his prewar childhood in a London commuter town and in wartime rural England, his Oxford education, and his apprentice years in Europe and London. From a lifetime of intimate correspondence, she narrates Fowles's thirty-seven-year love affair with the wife who inspired his most memorable women characters. And she follows the astonishing trajectory of Fowles's long writing career&#151;from his spectacular debut novel, <I>The Collector</I> (1963), to the haunting <I>The French Lieutenant's Woman</I> (1969), through his later fiction, poems, essays, and translations. 54606 30 3 2004 John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds total:2|5:1|4:1| 2 9 9 0 0 0 false false Tue Sep 08 14:07:11 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 14:07:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 20 16:10:20 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 16:10:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jul 09 19:22:41 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 19:22:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 10 09:16:33 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 09:16:33 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 16:32:47 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 16:32:47 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Feb 14 04:12:22 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 04:12:22 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Feb 10 15:07:01 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 15:07:08 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jan 02 11:14:08 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 22 20:16:41 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jun 16 00:39:29 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 00:39:29 -0700 2007