After briefly attending the University of Edinburgh, Fowles began compulsory military service in 1945 with training at Dartmoor, where he spent the next two years. Of his childhood, Fowles said 'I have tried to escape ever since.'įowles attended Bedford School, a large boarding school designed to prepare boys for university, from ages 13 to 18. He recalled the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. Limited to 100 copies, each signed by Laird Barron and Vladimir Zimakov.John Robert Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town in Essex.Published in 2016 and limited to just 100 copies for sale. This one does not have a dustjacket but rather a full cloth binding, two-color spine stamping, blindstamped front board, top-edge stain, thick cream paper, a unique fold-out title page, ribbon marker, and signature page. Here graced with a deluxe hardcover treatment, with a suite of original wood engravings by Vladimir Zimakov and a new afterword by Laird Barron, this oversize edition, at 7 × 10 inches, matches the other classic novels in our horror series. Published to wide acclaim, The Collector is one of the most harrowing novels ever written. Unable to make any normal contact, Clegg decides to add her to his collection of pretty, petrified objects, in the hope that if he keeps her captive long enough, she will grow to love him. He feels lonely, however, and wants to be with Miranda. He quits his job and buys an isolated house in the countryside.

One day, he wins a large prize in the football pools. He admires her from a distance but is unable to make any contact with her because he lacks social skills. Clegg is obsessed with Miranda Grey, a middle-class art student at the Slade School of Fine Art. The first part of the novel tells the story from his point of view. The novel is about a lonely young man, Frederick Clegg, who works as a clerk in a city hall and collects butterflies in his spare time.

It was adapted as a feature film of the same name in 1965. The Collector is the 1963 debut novel by English author John Fowles.

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