An edition of The Collector
(1963)
El Coleccionista
Spanish edition
by John Fowles
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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.
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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, psychologicalPlaces
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El Coleccionista
June 1983, Aims Intl Books Corp
Paperback
in Spanish
- Spanish edition
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"WHEN she was home from her boarding-school I used to see her almost every day sometimes, because their house was right opposite the Town Hall Annexe."
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| February 18, 2025 | Edited by Tom Morris | undo merge authors |
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