{"product_id":"2026100009001-secondhand-the-french-lieutenants-woman","title":"The French Lieutenant's Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\n\nThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342781522139,"sku":"2026100009001-SECONDHAND","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/6a249cc7-37ac-4da9-a45c-c75406f3858a.png?v=1790049485","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009001-secondhand-the-french-lieutenants-woman","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}