British author John Fowles, a loner and middle-class rebel who challenged domesticity, Victorian ideals and time itself in such novels as “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” and “The Collector” died Nov.

Contemporary English novels, as a rule, are modest things—modest in their themes, their manner, their physical dimensions. If many an American, Continental, or Latin American novelist attempts, in ...

"Perhaps it is that I am hunting the woman archetype," the novelist John Fowles wrote in his diary in 1954, several years before he began work on The Collector, the book that brought him worldwide ...

John Fowles, the novelist who died on Saturday at 79, combined a rare narrative instinct with a scholar’s interest in literary form; as a result, he enjoyed the unusual distinction of both ...

The Magus is an esoteric, talky, slowly-developing, sensitively-executed, and somewhat dull film. Adapted by John Fowles from his novel, the production, filmed largely on Majorca (although setting is ...

THE COLLECTOR by John Fowles. 305 pages. Little, Brown. $4.95. In today’s literature, the devil cannot be found. He is everywhere and he is nowhere; for there are few modern evils that have not. been ...

THE MAGUS by John Fowles. 582 pages. Little, Brown. $7.95. The art of John Fowles is arachnid. In The Collector, his brilliant first novel, the central character is a spidery psychopath who ensnares a ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: John Fowles is with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1998 Interview. Author John Fowles spoke about his career as a writer, the way he writes, ...