Fowles

/ faʊlz /

noun

1. FowlesJohn (Martin)19262005MBritishWRITING: novelist John ( Martin ). 1926–2005, British novelist. His books include The Collector (1963), The Magus (1966), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), and The Tree (1991)

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Fifty years have passed since John Fowles published The Collector, but the novel has not aged.

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Thomas Harris tipped his hat to Fowles in The Silence of the Lambs when he created the moth-loving antagonist Jame Gumb.

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Fowles succeeds in humanizing his antagonist more than his protagonist.

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Although Fowles had already drafted his more famous novel The Magus, he delayed its publication until he finished The Collector.

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Fowles wrote in The Aristos that: “The actual evil in Clegg overcame the potential good in Miranda.”

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The Gloucestershire visit was probably to the Fowles at Elkstone.

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The 9th line of the tales runs thus:—'And smale fowles maken melodie,' which is sufficiently correct.

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And also to make your sparrow-hawke foot great fowles, to the end that she may not learn nor be accustomed to carrion.

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The Fowles were agreeable hosts and the Georgian cottage was the scene of many gay gatherings and fine dinners.

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We pluckt abundance of ducks, as of other sort of fowles; we wanted not fish, nor fresh meat.

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