The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

The main character of the novel is Sarah Woodruff who is an impoverished former Victorian educator. ' (from Wikipedia).The novel “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” was made possible because of the haunting image of a woman in John Fowles’ imagination at the dock looking to the sea. Pinter received over 50 awards, prizes, and other honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 and the French Légion d'honneur in 2007. He directed nearly 50 productions for stage, theatre and screen. He also undertook a number of roles in works by other writers. He appeared as an actor in productions of his own work on radio and film. Later plays such as No Man's Land (1975) and Betrayal (1978) became known as 'memory plays'. His early works were described by critics as 'comedy of menace'. His second play, The Birthday Party, closed after eight performances, but was enthusiastically reviewed by critic Harold Hobson. 'Pinter's career as a playwright began with a production of The Room in 1957. There is a small black marker mark to the top edge of the text box by the spine. The spine ends of the book covers have some beginning bumping. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. Moreover, his progress from ignorance to self-knowledge, contrary to Marxist theory and, for that matter, inexorable Darwinian laws of natural selection, requires that he separate himself from his 'age,' the very culture that has formed him, defined him, and threatens to deform him. The narrative is a variation on the quest pattern, with the salvation of the story's everyman-protagonist at stake. The epigraph to the final chapter, Matthew Arnold's 'True Piety Is Acting What One Knows,' can be taken as a key to the story's compelling theme and purpose.

The affair between Charles Smithson, amateur gentleman paleontologist, and Sarah Woodruff, alluring, forbidden 'outcast,' is, in many respects, no more than a ruse (readers who express disappointment at the ending have no doubt swallowed too much of the bait, reading the novel as conventional romance).

Byatt and even most historians in painting the portrait of an era and its citizens as well as evoking the multifarious 'Victorian sensibility,' with its ambivalence about social class, morality, progress, science, religion, and, of course, sex. Fowles goes considerably beyond a novelist such as A. This novel is at once a retrospective and a prospective, a narrative that ultimately erases the temporal boundaries between the Victorian era and the modern reader's present moment. Text and binding very good DJ has tears (repaired) at edges and a missing one inch chunk at the back.

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles