John Fowles
Born
in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, The United Kingdom
March 31, 1926
Died
November 05, 2005
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Genre
Influences
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The Collector
307 editions
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1963
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The Magus
85 editions
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1965
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
293 editions
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1969
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The Ebony Tower
99 editions
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published
1974
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A Maggot
86 editions
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published
1985
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Daniel Martin
59 editions
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published
1977
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Mantissa
63 editions
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published
1982
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The Tree
by
43 editions
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published
1979
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Áristos
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21 editions
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published
1964
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Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings
22 editions
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1998
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“The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."
"I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."
"You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”
― The Magus
"I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."
"You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”
― The Magus
“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.”
― The Magus
― The Magus
“I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”
― The Collector
― The Collector
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