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The Collector

  • John Fowles

3.75

4 ratings

Fowles’ stunning debut is a study of a lonely young sociopath who kidnaps the woman he has fixated on, keeping her in his cellar in the belief that she will eventually come to love him. The story is narrated in turns by the young man and his captive, giving two opposing points of view.

Genres

  • English Horror tales
  • Butterflies
  • Collection and preservation
  • Fiction
  • Kidnapping
  • Psychopaths
  • Translations into Russian
  • England
  • Mentally ill
  • Crimes against
  • Young women
  • Collectors and collecting
  • British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, psychological
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About the author

  • John Fowles

    1926 - 2005

    3.84

    32 ratings · 160 works

Editions

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    Little, Brown and Company

    1963

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    Dell Publishing Company

    1964

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    Rowohlt Taschenbuch

    1988

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    Izd-vo "AST"

    2003

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New Dell ed.

Dell Pub. Co.

1977

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    Unabridged edition

    Chivers Audio Books

    December 1996

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    Pan

    1986

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    Vintage

    1998

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    Vintage

    1998

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    [1st American ed.]

    Little, Brown

    1963

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    Pan Books

    1986

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    VINTAGE (RAND)

    February 5, 2004

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    VINTAGE (RAND)

    February 5, 2004

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    Dell Pub. Co.

    1971

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    Dell

    1964

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    Hodder & Stoughton

    1991

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    World Books

    1964-01-01

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    The Reprint Society

    1964-01-01

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    Dell

    1970-01-01

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    Little, Brown

    1963-01-01

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    Dell

    1964-01-01

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    The Reprint Society

    1964-01-01

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    Little Brown

    1963-01-01

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    London : Jonathan Cape

    1963-01-01

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    Penguin Random House

    1979

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    Penguin Random House

    1998

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    Penguin Random House

    2010

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    Little, Brown

    1963-01-01

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    Little Brown & Company

    2012

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    Little Brown & Company

    1998

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    Little, Brown

    1963-01-01

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    Little, Brown

    1963-01-01

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    Penguin Random House

    2010

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    Little Brown & Company

    2012

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    Inkilap ve Aka

    1982

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    Picador

    1989

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    Large Prnt edition

    ISIS Large Print Books

    March 1986

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    A limited ed.

    Franklin Library

    1982

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    Cape

    1971

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    "Severo-Zapad"

    1993

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    Laurel ed.

    Dell Pub. Co.

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    Reprint Society

    1964

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    Jonathan Cape

    1963

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    Little Brown Company

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    Dell Pub. Co.

    1964

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    Barnes & Noble Books

    2002

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    [1st American ed.]

    Little, Brown

    1963

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    Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media

    December 1997

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    Wang jia chu ban she

    1989