
Set internationally and spanning three decades DANIEL MARTIN is, in the author`s own words, `intended as a defence and illustration of an unfashionable philosophy, humanism, and also as an exploration of what it is to...
A MAGGOT is not an historical novel in the normal sense. It began as a quirk or obsession (a `maggot` in the archaic sense of the word) which found its setting in the second wave of Protestant Dissent in England. It...
THE EBONY TOWER is a series of novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. The story of the title - which the OBSERVER described as `the finest thing Fowles has written` - concerns a journalist visiting a...
