The French Lieutenant's Woman
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
On the windswept Cobb at Lyme Regis, a respectable Victorian gentleman named Charles Smithson glimpses a solitary, enigmatic figure staring out to sea — the mysterious Sarah Woodruff, known scandalously to the town as the French Lieutenant's Woman — and in that moment, his carefully ordered world begins to unravel. John Fowles's 1969 masterwork is a brilliantly conceived historical novel set against the rigid moral architecture of the Victorian era, yet it audaciously refuses to be contained by it, offering the reader multiple endings and a narrator who openly acknowledges his own fictional artifice. The French Lieutenant's Woman stands as a landmark of postmodern literature, simultaneously a passionate Victorian romance and a razor-sharp critique of the conventions that governed it. Fowles writes with erudition and psychological depth, weaving Darwinian theory, Marxist thought, and existentialist philosophy into a narrative that is as intellectually charged as it is emotionally gripping. The novel forces a reckoning with freedom — of choice, of self-definition, and of narrative itself — leaving the reader to wonder whether any of us are truly the authors of our own lives.
Author: John Fowles
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
On the windswept Cobb at Lyme Regis, a respectable Victorian gentleman named Charles Smithson glimpses a solitary, enigmatic figure staring out to sea — the mysterious Sarah Woodruff, known scandalously to the town as the French Lieutenant's Woman — and in that moment, his carefully ordered world begins to unravel. John Fowles's 1969 masterwork is a brilliantly conceived historical novel set against the rigid moral architecture of the Victorian era, yet it audaciously refuses to be contained by it, offering the reader multiple endings and a narrator who openly acknowledges his own fictional artifice. The French Lieutenant's Woman stands as a landmark of postmodern literature, simultaneously a passionate Victorian romance and a razor-sharp critique of the conventions that governed it. Fowles writes with erudition and psychological depth, weaving Darwinian theory, Marxist thought, and existentialist philosophy into a narrative that is as intellectually charged as it is emotionally gripping. The novel forces a reckoning with freedom — of choice, of self-definition, and of narrative itself — leaving the reader to wonder whether any of us are truly the authors of our own lives.