John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds

by Eileen Warburton

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This biography of John Fowles chronicles his pre-war childhood in Leigh-on-Sea and in wartime rural England, his Oxford education, his apprentice years in Europe and London and, from a lifetime of intimate correspondence, narrates Fowles's 37-year love affair with his wife Elizabeth, the woman who inspired his most memorable female characters.

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Eileen Warburton is a writer who lives in Newport, Rhode Island

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Original publication date
2004

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Biography & Memoir, Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
LCC
PR6056 .O85 .Z89Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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