Perhaps the most beloved of John Fowles’s internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant’s Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel. “Filled with enchanting mysteries and magically erotic possibilities” (New York Times), the novel inspired the hugely successful 1981 film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons and is today universally … today universally regarded as a modern classic.
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Victorian era novel. Awe-inspiring descriptions. Emotionally charged,
Read this post-modern 1969 novel and then watch the 1981 movie with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, which was written by Harold Pinter who is a playwright, not a screenwriter. The novel itself is in one sense a Victorian novel about a man choosing between marrying a respectable woman and a fallen woman who people refer to as the French …
John Fowles starts with an image of a woman and then seductively uses gorgeous language to narrate this Victorian story with subtelties and inuendos that completely seduce the reader! It is the quintissential historical romance, and no other author could have done it justice! If you have time to dedicate to a great read, buy this book and spend …
The author takes you by the hand and walks you into his painting…