The Collector
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A masterwork of psychological terror, John Fowles' The Collector presents one of modern literature's most chilling portraits of obsession: Frederick Clegg, a socially isolated bank clerk who wins the football pools and uses his newfound wealth to act on his darkest fantasy — kidnapping Miranda Grey, a beautiful art student he has long fixated upon from afar. Told in two devastating halves, the novel chronicles the imprisonment of Miranda in a country cellar, unfolding through the alternating perspectives of captor and captive as Clegg methodically catalogues his prize as though she were one of his prized butterfly specimens. Fowles constructs a searing examination of class, control, and the violence latent in possessive desire, pitting Clegg's stunted, acquisitive worldview against Miranda's cultivated intellect and fierce will to live. The stark, unflinching prose forces the reader to inhabit two irreconcilable minds, generating a sustained dread that never relents. First published in 1963 and instantly acclaimed, The Collector established Fowles as one of Britain's most daring literary voices — and its final pages leave an imprint that is impossible to shake.
Author: John Fowles
Format: Paperback
Genre: Thriller
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A masterwork of psychological terror, John Fowles' The Collector presents one of modern literature's most chilling portraits of obsession: Frederick Clegg, a socially isolated bank clerk who wins the football pools and uses his newfound wealth to act on his darkest fantasy — kidnapping Miranda Grey, a beautiful art student he has long fixated upon from afar. Told in two devastating halves, the novel chronicles the imprisonment of Miranda in a country cellar, unfolding through the alternating perspectives of captor and captive as Clegg methodically catalogues his prize as though she were one of his prized butterfly specimens. Fowles constructs a searing examination of class, control, and the violence latent in possessive desire, pitting Clegg's stunted, acquisitive worldview against Miranda's cultivated intellect and fierce will to live. The stark, unflinching prose forces the reader to inhabit two irreconcilable minds, generating a sustained dread that never relents. First published in 1963 and instantly acclaimed, The Collector established Fowles as one of Britain's most daring literary voices — and its final pages leave an imprint that is impossible to shake.