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by: John Fowles  Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780001388451 Edition: Abridged Format: Abridged, Audiobook ISBN: 0001388452 Label: HarperCollins Audio Manufacturer: HarperCollins Audio Number Of Items: 2 Publication Date: May 10, 1990 Publisher: HarperCollins Audio Studio: HarperCollins Audio Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Tells the story of Charles Smithson's infatuation with the unusual Sarah Woodruff, whilst being engaged to a young lady of a good family and a considerable dowry. The author re-creates the feel of a Victorian novel. He also wrote "The Collector" and "The Magus". Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Fun novel!This is a good book for anyone who likes self-referential fiction. It's written like a Victorian novel, but with a fantastic modern narrator who plays around with the story in places and laments how difficult it is to write novels. I recommend it particularly to anyone who has read or studied Victorian fiction. Rating: - Much Ado about NothingThe starting point for each of Fowles' books - The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman - is the same. The lead female character emotionally dominates the leading male character, who is a hard-headed dude too obtuse to learn from his repeated mistakes. And, as other reviewers have noted, it's difficult to even like many of the players in this book because they're nothing more than low lifes with selfish and malicious intentions. The development of this simple story springs from ... Read More Rating:  - Delicious documentation of a periodThe French Lieutenant's Woman is a delicious grab bag of a novel in which nestles some great magpie type thieving from 19th Century poetry, scientific, and social and literary documents (Marx, Darwin, Hardy, Clough, Tennyson, Arnold and many more) are all draped around the edges of this narrative). It is a real brain feast for anyone interested in high Victorian Britain, and the mores and hypocrisies that lay within (this was a society where the legs of pianos were covered up lest gentlemen become ... Read More Rating: - A great contemporary, Victorian novelAll the depth and perspicacity of a Victorian novel, told from a late 20th century perspective. Brilliant. Rating: - Victorian Version of the Heartbreak Kid [30][93][T]This book is better identified for what it is not, than for what it is. It is not a time period romance novel. It is not a mystery. It is not a "woman's novel." It is not a "man's novel." It is altogether different. Intellectually, it has plenty to offer. It delivers over 60 poems to the reader. It delivers historical analysis of the concepts and collisions of thought emanating in England during the 1860's. And, amid, that colliding backdrop, Fowles tells us, ". . . every ... Read More 
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