6/12/2023 0 Comments The collector vintage fowles![]() ![]() ![]() He is a socially awkward, strange individual and it’s hard to decide whether he is good or bad the things he does are bad, but his intentions truly are not. Frederick isn’t the Arnold Layne from Pink Floyd’s song, stealing and collecting girls knickers from the washing lines in suburban gardens of Cambridge, but he is a collector of other things firstly the butterflies, and then one beautiful girl called Miranda he watches from afar and over time falls in love with, despite not knowing anything about her really, apart of the Art School she goes to and what she looks like. I was captivated from the very first page because from the very beginning Fowles places the reader into the mind of a seemingly ordinary, yet very unusual individual named Frederick Clegg. ![]() I discovered this novel by serendipity, completely randomly, but it turned out that this was exactly the kind of novel I craved. I read quite a few interesting novels lately, but John Fowles’ debut novel “The Collector”, published in May 1963, is the most peculiar one both the theme and the style in which it was written are fascinating. ![]()
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