John Fowles

A man trapped in a millionare's deadly game of political and sexual betrayal Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island where his friendship with the owner of the islands most magnificent estate leads him into a nightmare. As reality and fantasy are deliberately confused by staged deaths, sensual encounters, and terrifying violence, Urfe becomes a desperate man fighting for his sanity and his life. A work rich with symbols, conundrums and labrinthine twists of event, The Magus is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining, a work that ranks with the best novels of modern times.

The classic meditation on creativity and the natural world"For years I have carried this book. . . with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance." --W. S. Merwin, Los Angeles Times Book Review"The Tree is the fullest and finest exploration I've ever read of how the useless delights to be discovered in nature can ripen into the practice of art." --Lewis Hyde, author of The GiftFirst published a generation ago, The Tree is renowned English novelist John Fowles's provocative meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity, and a powerful argument against taming the wild. In it, Fowles recounts his own childhood in England and describes how he rebelled against his Edwardian father's obsession with the "quantifiable yield" of well-pruned fruit trees and came to prize instead the messy, purposeless beauty of nature left to its wildest.The Tree is an inspiring, even life-changing book, one that reaffirms our connection to nature and reminds us of the pleasure of getting lost, the merits of having no plan, and the wisdom of following one's nose wherever it may lead--in life as much as in art.This special 30th anniversary edition includes an introduction by Barry Lopez.

Read John Fowlesâ??s feisty, clever, cunning and compelling novel with an unusual twist. On a remote Greek island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration of human complexities.

Dzhon Faulz - odin iz naibolee vydajuschikhsja (i zasluzhenno populjarnykh) britanskikh pisatelej dvadtsatogo veka, sovremennyj klassik glavnogo kalibra, avtor vsemirnykh bestsellerov "Kollektsioner" i "Volkhv", "Ljubovnitsa frantsuzskogo lejtenanta" i "Bashnja iz chernogo dereva". V kazhdom svoem tvorenii ne pokhozhij na sebja prezhnego, Faulz tem ne menee vsegda ostaetsja samim soboj - romanticheskim i zagadochnym, shokirujuschim i v to zhe vremja vlekuschim svoej neobuzdannoj erotikoj. "Mantissa" - eto roman o romane, zvuchnoe ekho napisannogo i lish edva ugadyvaemye zvuki togo, chto esche budet napisano... I glavnyj geroj - pisatel, tvorets, chja chuvstvennaja fantazija sozdaet osobyj mir; v nem bushujut strasti, iz plena kotorykh ne mozhet vyrvatsja i on sam. Chto bylo by, esli by personazhi mogli razgovarivat so svoimi avtorami? Esli oni okazhutsja v odnoj komnate, chem eto mozhet zakonchitsja? "Mantissa" - otvet na etot vopros. Fundament knigi stoit na mnozhestve sloev kulturnoj pochvy. Ot takikh knig khochetsja razmyshljat, khochetsja chitat, a glavnoe - khochetsja tvorit.

Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. In the most unorthodox of hospital rooms we eavesdrop on the serious discourse, virulent abuse and hilarious mockery of the erotic guerilla war that is Mantissa.

The first volume of John Fowles's Journals ended with him achieving international literary renown after the publication of The Collector and The Magus, and leaving London behind to live in a remote house near Lyme Regis.

Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home to reconcile with a dying friend, and also to visit his own forgotten past in an attempt to discover himself.

Widely acclaimed since publication, The French Lieutenant's Woman is John Fowles' best-loved novel and the ultimate in epic historical romance. Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.'A remarkable performance... As gripping as The Collector and The Magus' Observer

Discover John Fowlesâ?? compelling classic first novelâ??Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtonesâ?? Sunday TimesWithdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs.

The Magus is the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching assignment on a remote Greek island. There his friendship with a local millionaire evolves into a deadly game, one in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas must fight for his sanity and his very survival.

In this series of moving recollections involving both his childhood and his work as a mature artist, John Fowles explains the impact of nature on his life and the dangers inherent in our traditional urge to categorise, to tame and ultimately to possess the landscape.

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.

A new trade paperback edition of "a masterpiece of symbolically charged realism....Fowles is the only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of a Tolstoy or James" (John Gardner, Saturday Review). The eponymous hero of John Fowles's largest and richest novel is an English playwright turned Hollywood screenwriter who has begun to question his own values. Summoned home to England to visit an ailing friend, Daniel Martin finds himself back in the company of people who once knew him well, forced to confront his buried past, and propelled toward a journey of self-discovery through which he ultimately creates for himself a more satisfying existence. A brilliantly imagined novel infused with a profound understanding of human nature, Daniel Martin is John Fowles at the height of his literary powers.

The Ebony Tower is a series of novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In the title story, a journalist visiting a celebrated but reclusive painter is intrigued by the elderly artist's relationship with two beautiful young women.

This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre.

"Kolektsioner" (1963) - debjutnij roman i pershij bestseler Dzhona Faulza (1926-2005), stosujetsja najvazhlivishikh problem buttja - zv'jazku krasi i potvornosti, vzajemin ljudini j suspilstva, Tvortsja i tvorinnja.Molodij klerk, jakij kolektsionuje metelikiv, zakokhujetsja v junu krasunju z mistetskikh kil, jaka staje pershim ekzempljarom u jogo novij strashnij kolektsiji. Tsej bliskuchij vitvir ujavi uslavlenogo britanskogo pismennika vseljaje v chitacha neoslabne narostajuche vidchuttja trivogi j zalishaje po sobi nezabutnje vrazhennja.

Tainstvennyj millioner provodit zhestokie psikhologicheskie eksperimenty nad molodym uchitelem na grecheskom ostrove. Legendarnyj filosofskij roman-misterija ob odinokoj dushe, kotoraja v illjuzornykh kartinakh nastojchivo ischet istinu i ljubov. Roman "Volkhv" vkhodit v spisok "200 luchshikh knig po versii BBC". Novaja serija klassiki v stilnom minimalistichnom oformlenii. Kazhdaja kniga serii - pamjatnik epokhi, okazavshij vlijanie na mirovuju literaturu. Idealnyj vybor dlja tekh, kto khochet rasshirit svoi literaturnye gorizonty i prikosnutsja k istinnym sokrovischam mirovoj klassiki. Tekst napechatan na kremovoj bumage, mjagkoj na oschup. Dlja serii podobran krupnyj shrift, komfortnyj dlja glaz.

Debjutnyj roman Dzhona Faulza "Kollektsioner" ne pokhozh ni na drugie knigi avtora, ni na drugie proizvedenija zhanra "psikhologicheskogo detektiva". Odinokij, nedalekij i prosto neprijatnyj molodoj chelovek neozhidanno vyigryvaet ogromnuju summu deneg v lotereju. Chto on s nej sdelaet, osobenno esli uchityvat ego strast k kollektsionirovaniju babochek i tajnuju ljubov k mestnoj krasavitse? V istorii protivostojanija manjaka i ego zhertvy Faulz uvidel shekspirovskuju "Burju", protivoborstvo Dobra i Zla, primitivnogo obyvatelja i vozvyshennogo khudozhnika, Ljubvi, Smerti i Krasoty. Novaja serija klassiki dlja poklonnikov "Magistral. Glavnyj trend" v tvjordoj oblozhke. Bezuprechnost stilja, lakonichnost, taktilnye materialy, tsvetnye forzatsy, risunok na obreze.

Dzhon Faulz - odin iz naibolee vydajuschikhsja i zasluzhenno populjarnykh britanskikh pisatelej XX veka, sovremennyj klassik glavnogo kalibra, avtor vsemirnykh bestsellerov "Volkhv" i "Bashnja iz chernogo dereva", "Deniel Martin" i "Ljubovnitsa frantsuzskogo lejtenanta". "Kukolka" - odno iz poslednikh krupnykh proizvedenij avtora, ego tvorcheskoe zaveschanie. Roman vykhodit polnostju: perevedeny i vpletennye v romannuju tkan fragmenty khronikalnoj sektsii londonskogo ezhemesjachnika "Dzhentlmenz megezin", kotorye ne tolko skladyvajutsja v zhivopisnuju panoramu epokhi, no i soderzhat kljuch k vozmozhnoj razgadke proiskhodjaschego. A proiskhodjaschee v romane - tainstvenno donelzja. Pejzazhi staroj Anglii, detektivnyj sjuzhet s elementami mistiki, khitroumnye intrigi i tainstvennye proisshestvija sluzhat Faulzu velikolepnym fonom dlja glubokogo psikhologicheskogo issledovanija otnositelnosti poznanija i istiny, granits chelovecheskoj svobody, istoricheskikh kornej sovremennoj tsivilizatsii.

Kak i drugie ne menee izvestnye romany Faulza, ego debjutnyj "Kollektsioner" ne pokhozh ni na "sobratev" (prinadlezhaschikh peru velikogo "volkhva"), ni na drugie proizvedenija zhanra "psikhologicheskogo detektiva". Odinokij, nedalekij i prosto neprijatnyj molodoj chelovek neozhidanno vyigryvaet ogromnuju summu deneg v lotereju. Chto on s nej sdelaet, osobenno esli uchityvat ego strast k kollektsionirovaniju babochek i tajnuju ljubov k mestnoj krasavitse? V istorii protivostojanija manjaka i ego zhertvy Faulz uvidel shekspirovskuju "Burju", protivoborstvo Dobra i Zla, primitivnogo obyvatelja i vozvyshennogo khudozhnika, Ljubvi, Smerti i Krasoty.Perevodchik: Bessmertnaja Irina Mikhajlovna