The Ebony Tower - Hardcover

Fowles, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316287458 ISBN 13: 9780316287456

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 1999

Synopsis

The Ebony Tower, comprising a novella, three stories, and a translation of a medieval French tale, 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.

About this title

About the Author:

John Fowles (1926-2005) was educated at Oxford and subsequently lectured in English at universities in Greece and the UK. The success of his first novel, The Collector, published in 1963, allowed him to devote all his time to writing. His books include the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and Daniel Martin. Fowles spent the last decades of his life on the southern coast of England in the small harbor town of Lyme Regis.

From AudioFile:

This collection of five short novels and one essay is characteristic of Fowles's intense, painterly vision of the natural world and the world of human relations. The stories are inviting: a painter living in seclusion with two young female attendants, a successful writer whose latest manuscript is destroyed, a medieval love story, a man who disappears and a family picnic in France on a sunny Sunday. Jonathan Oliver reads with meticulous care for phrase and punctuation, inviting attention to Fowles's image-laden descriptions, spare but enigmatic plots and mysterious revelations of character. Oliver makes the often jarring transition between novels gracefully. He captures Fowles's ironic tone but doesn't overplay it and is as much at home playing a young burglar as a lecherous film producer. L.R.S. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0316287458
• ISBN 13: 9780316287456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 313