The Tree [SIGNED AND DATED BY JOHN FOWLES, FIRST UK PRINTING]

Fowles, John & Frank Horvat

ISBN 10: 0906053048 / ISBN 13: 9780906053041

Published by Aurum, 1979

About this Item

Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by John Fowles on the title page (signature and DATE only). No stated edition or number line (1st UK printing). Price-clipped dust jacket is as new in a protective mylar sleeve. Book is fine. Fowles is the late Silver Pen Award-, WH Smith Literary Award-, and Christopher Award-winning author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and "The Ebony Tower". Photographer Horvat is the late Fondazione del Centenario Award-winning author of "New York Up and Down" and "House of Fifteen Keys". Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

Seller Inventory # 009536

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tree [SIGNED AND DATED BY JOHN FOWLES, FIRST UK PRINTING]
• Publisher: Aurum
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0906053048
• ISBN 13: 9780906053041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illus. With Photos
• Edition: 1st UK edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

John Fowles takes the tree and the forest as the best analogues of prose fiction, symbolizing the "green man" or the wild part of our psyche from which the artistic impulse is born. He explains the impact of nature on his own life and warns "civilized" man of the deeper and more subtle dangers that attend his traditional rejection of the wild and the chaos it has come to represent. The author also wrote "The Collector", "The Aristos", "The Magus", "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "The Ebony Tower", "Daniel Martin" and "Maggot".

From the Back Cover

John Fowles (1926–2005) is widely regarded as one of the preeminent English novelists of the twentieth century—his books have sold millions of copies worldwide, been turned into beloved films, and been popularly voted among the 100 greatestnovels of the century.

To a smaller yet no less passionate audience, Fowles is also known for having written The Tree, one of his few works of nonfiction. First published a generation ago, it is a provocative meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity, and a powerful argument against taming the wild. In it, Fowles recounts his own childhood in England and describes how he rebelled against his Edwardian father’s obsession with the “quantifiable yield” of well-pruned fruit trees and came to prize instead the messy, purposeless beauty of nature left to its wildest.

The Tree is an inspiring, even life-changing book, like Lewis Hyde’s The Gift, one that reaffirms our connection to nature and reminds us of the pleasure of getting lost, the merits of having no plan, and the wisdom of following one’s nose wherever it may lead—in life as much as in art.