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John Fowles

Born

in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, The United Kingdom

March 31, 1926

Died

November 05, 2005

Website

http://www.fowlesbooks.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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John Robert Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town in Essex. He recalled the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. Of his childhood, Fowles said "I have tried to escape ever since."

Fowles attended Bedford School, a large boarding school designed to prepare boys for university, from ages 13 to 18. After briefly attending the University of Edinburgh, Fowles began compulsory military service in 1945 with training at Dartmoor, where he spent the next two years. World War II ended shortly after his training began so Fowles never came near combat, and by 1947 he had decided that the military life was not for him.

Fowles then spent four years at Oxford, where he discov ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 198,305 ratings · 12,315 reviews · 92 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Collector 3.98 avg rating — 72,381 ratings — published 1963 — 112 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magus 4.05 avg rating — 55,685 ratings — published 1965 — 159 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The French Lieutenant's Woman 3.88 avg rating — 51,146 ratings — published 1969 — 193 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ebony Tower 3.69 avg rating — 3,928 ratings — published 1974 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Maggot 3.58 avg rating — 3,182 ratings — published 1985 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daniel Martin 3.80 avg rating — 2,608 ratings — published 1977 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mantissa 3.17 avg rating — 2,472 ratings — published 1982 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tree by John Fowles, Frank Horvat (Illustrator) 3.76 avg rating — 1,445 ratings — published 1979 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Áristos by John Fowles, Miguel Martínez-Lage (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 688 ratings — published 1964 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings 3.78 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by John Fowles (?)

“The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."

"I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."

"You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

tags: betrayal, hitler, tragedy, war

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“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

tags: escape, poetry, suicide

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“I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

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A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert, 72 pages, 1877

62 votes, 26.8%

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx, 55 pages, 1997

52 votes, 22.5%

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs, 32 pages, 1902

30 votes, 13.0%

An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, 36+- pages, 1890

28 votes, 12.1%

The Tree by John Fowles, 112 pages, 1979

24 votes, 10.4%

The Star by Arthur C. Clarke, 10 pages, 1955

20 votes, 8.7%

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie, unsure of size less than 130 pages, 1993

15 votes, 6.5%

231 total votes

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