Scott Hutchins                  

(March 4, 1974 – Present)

Hutchins is an American novelist and short-story writer. His work has appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Magazine and Esquire Magazine. His debut novel A Working Theory of Love has been called both “revelatory and exciting” and “ambitious and accomplished.”

Kenneth Grahame         

(March 8, 1859 – July 6, 1932)

Grahame was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children’s literature. It was later adapted into a Disney film.

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John Updike

(March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009)

Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. His most famous work is his “Rabbit” series, which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death.

Anna Sewell

(March 30, 1820 – April 25, 1878)

Sewell was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel Black Beauty.

John Fowles

(March 31, 1926 – November 5, 2005)

Fowles was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism.

1. He served as a lieutenant in the Royal Marines for two years, but World War II ended before he could go into combat.

2. He taught English at the University of Poiters and then to Spetsai, a Greek island, where he taught at Anorgyrios College.

Fowles with his family

3. His first published work allowed him to retire with his wife and her daughter to Lyme Regis in Dorset, England.

4. Fowles had a keen interest in natural history, art, gardening, and local history.

Adapted into a film in 1981.

5. In 1966, he envisioned a woman in black Victorian garb standing on a quay and staring out at the sea. The vision recurred, became an obsession, and led eventually to The French Lieutenant’s Woman, a Victorian novel in manner and mores, but contemporary and existential in viewpoint.

6. Not only was he an acclaimed fiction writer but he demonstrated expertise in his nonfiction writing, as well.

The Ebony Tower

by John Fowles 

ISBN : 9780099480518

The Ebony Tower contains: a novella, three stories, and a translation of a medieval French tale. It echoes themes from John Fowles’s internationally celebrated novels as it probes the fitful relations between love and hate, pleasure and pain, fantasy and reality.

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The Time of the Angels

by Iris Murdoch

ISBN : 9780099429098

An Anglican priest loses his faith and sends his family and parish spinning into chaos. Father Carel Fisher’s London rectory—like his faith—is a shell. The rectory remains hollowed and broken from bombs dropped in the Second World War, while his religious passion abandoned him long ago. As Carel becomes a shut-in, his brother Marcus sets out to save him before it’s too late. Rich and complex, The Time of the Angels is a powerful story of a man’s descent into madness, and the destruction he wreaks along the way.

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]]> https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/theme-of-the-week-john-fowles/ Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:14:15 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=3559 John Robert Fowles was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work reflects the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others. Fowles’ books have been translated into many languages, and several adapted as films. He was named by the Times newspaper of UK as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

Take a look at Lyme-Regis, England where a majority of Fowle’s novels take place.

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