Vintage The Collector - John Fowles
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Publikace: THE COLLECTOR - FOWLES, J.. Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is understand her captor, and so gain her freedom. Publikace: THE COLLECTOR - FOWLES, J.. Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables his to capture the art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall. The situation is seen first from the collector\'s point of view: he thinks the chloroform pad no more vicious than his butterfly net, and patiently waits for the barriers of class and taste that inhibit their love to break down in the limbo of their isolation. Written by the author of \'\'The French Lieutenant\'s Woman\'\', \'\'Mantissa\'\' and \'\'The Magus\'\', this is the story of a lonely young man whose sole interest is collecting butterflies - until he wins the pools - and then he begins collecting girls. CCV - He has a magnificent narrative gift...brilliant Independent A brilliant, unusual theme... Short and spare and direct, an i