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Title: The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, Paul Shelley ISBN: 0-7540-5465-9 Publisher: Chivers Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 14 List Price(USD): $115.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (37 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great novel- sorry, I may have some spoilers here.......
Comment: This is a wonderfully complex, mysterious, stunningly wrought work. Fowles succeeds in injecting his postmodern, often comical viewpoints into this "Victorian" novel. Example: I love how the narrator steps into the train compartment and sits across from Charles, contemplating his future and what he has in store for him. That is damned neat! Even more fascinating is that this narrator, god, whatever you would prefer to call him, describes himself as having a huge beard, and Fowles (if you've seen any pictures of him) has a big white beard as well.
I digress...The prose is excellent. The novel remains quite accessible and engrossing while still tackling complex ideas. I loved the exisentialism ideas swirling around the novel, and in Charles and Sarah, Fowles has created two unforgettable characters "seeking to escape the tryanny and cant of their age," as it is stated on the cover of my book. This novel captures the essence of the Victorian period as well as Dickens or Eliot would, but the difference is that Fowles skillfully penetrates through the hypocrisy and artificiality of the time with his sharp observations. Ever the postmodernist, Fowles provides us with both a Victorian ending (perhaps as Dickens would have liked it; it is practically overflowing with sentimentality) and a Modern ending. A must read!
Rating: 4
Summary: The Victorian Era read by the late '60s
Comment: When I started reading The French Lt's Woman, i was expecting some very sad, tragic and hard to follow, but what I got is quite the opposite: the book gives you good laughs sometimes and it is very catching. I think that the fact of being written more than a hundrer years later than the time when the story takes place allows the writer to have a critical and ironic inight in his characters and events as well.
Fowles is a master when it comes to go over the XIX century using the XX century approach. From time to time he reminds us that when the book was being written most of the moral of its characters and situations had already changed. On the other hand, we can see that the world hasn't changed at all in many other subjects dealt in the book.
I guess that when the book was first published in the late '60s it caught on, and it is easy to understand, The French... goes with the sixties ideas.
To sum up, it is a book interesting for anyone who enjoys a good writting and wants to see how different ( or similar) we are from the Victorian Era.
Rating: 3
Summary: The French Lieutenant's Woman
Comment: The French Lieutenant's Woman is a Victorian novel by a modern author - the revered John Fowles. The novel concerns a love triangle between a young man on an income, his fiancé, and the mysterious and independent Sarah.
Throughout the novel, Fowles takes numerous opportunities to speak directly to the reader in asides that describe the process of writing fiction from an author's perspective. Fowles also speaks directly to the reader to provide some historical information about the Victorians and their age. These asides are enjoyable and make the characters seem less removed from our own time.
One quibble: the final resolution of the plot was a bit stilted (the characters basically stand up and explain themselves) and not very satisfying. I'm still not sure I fully understand Sarah's motives. The rest of this novel is very well done, though.
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Title: The Magus by John Fowles ISBN: 0440351626 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Collector (Back Bay Books) by John Fowles ISBN: 0316290238 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 04 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Cliffsnotes French Lieutenant's Woman (Cliffs Notes) by James F., Jr. Bellman, Kathryn Bellman ISBN: 0822004992 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Pub. Date: 01 July, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: A Clockwork Orange (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0393312836 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1986 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard ISBN: 0802132758 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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