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    <body><![CDATA[What I really liked about Fowles’ stories is that each of it has a different theme and narrative technique which makes the reading very interesting. I really like some of the stories.<br/><br/>***<br/><strong>turnul de abanos</strong> e o colectie de 5 nuvele ale lui john fowles. prima, cea care da titlul carti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31897543">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know what my issue was here, but reading this felt like a plodding chore.  Fowles' prose is still a delight, but I don't know if his storytelling works for me in the short fiction mode.  The title story was sort of a light <em>Magus</em>, in fitting with his &quot;variations&quot; theme for the colle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57127825">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[John Fowles doesn't get much respect in the States, which is pretty unfortunate.  He's so good at sculpting these impressionistic, slightly sinister atmospheres.  And then, rather than using them as backdrop, he plays with them, constantly forcing them to interact with human agents.  It's a trick th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54864517">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fowles shows his mastery of the short story with these very literary tales.  One about a working-class burglar who ransacks and eventually burns the manuscript-in-progress of a precocious academic, whom the burglar ties up and forces to watch the pages burn. This is adult fiction, not for adolescent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71766095">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Ebony Tower, a work every bit as intrigbuing aand dazzling as Fowles has written. It echoes themes from his earlier works. a Tour de Force as yet unrecognized.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Fowles is one of Elizabeth George's favorite writers and since Elizabeth George is one of my favorites and I've already read all of her books...  This was a collection of short stories which I did not realize when I checked it out of the library.  I just tend to not like short stories - by the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44363309">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Ebony Tower&quot; returns to the theme of mentorship, telling another version a meeting with a roll model. In this case, it's a meeting of artists. David Williams, a frustrated artist detours from his holiday with his wife to interview the cantankerous Henry Breasley who lives in seclusion...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4852071">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just a little too much of the Ebony Tower in this one, somewhat aloof and very old worldish. Nice to get carried away.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[6/10 The Magus is my favourite book ever, and this was my second Fowles book (but not my last!) and I was hugely disappointed. Half of these stories went nowhere and the other half were basically boring dialogue between shallow characters used to get Fowles opinions across to his readers on subjects...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37746801">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a collection of 5 stories based around medieval themes.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[some stories were irritating, but others worth a read- particularly the last few- start at the end and only read the title story if you're stuck at a greyhound station and in an unusually indulgent mood]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice piece but I found the language too unnecessarily complex. Yet the plot is pretty much down-to-earth.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as his novels, but all the stories are good, and a couple of them shine.]]></body>
    
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