The French Lieutenant's Woman
by Fowles, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good, 1st edition, with clipped d/j in good condition but with some scuffs around edges. Cloth boards in good condition with gil
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, with clipped d/j in good condition but with some scuffs around edges. Cloth boards in good condition with gilt titling bright. Pages clean. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). et in Victorian London. The novel explores the fraught relationship of a gentleman and amateur naturalist, Charles Smithson, and the former governess and independent woman, Sarah Woodruff, with whom Charles falls in love. The novel builds on Fowles' authority in Victorian literature, both following and critiquing many of the conventions of period novels.
Synopsis
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), by John Fowles, is a period novel inspired by the 1823 novel Ourika, by Claire de Duras, which Fowles translated to English during 1977 (and revised in 1994). He was a great aficionado of Thomas Hardy, and, in particular, likened his heroine, Sarah Woodruff, to Tess Durbeyfield, the protagonist of Hardy’s popular novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891).
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC12347
- Title
- The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Author
- Fowles, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, 1st edition, with clipped d/j in good condition but with some scuffs around edges. Cloth boards in good condition with gil
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Pages
- 445
- Size
- 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8\"\" x
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, Fowles
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
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