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Wormholes

essays and occasional writings

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Divided into four sections--Writing and the Self, Culture and Society, Literature and Literary Criticism, and Nature and the Nature of Nature--"Wormholes" contains 30 pieces, dating from 1963 to the present, which reflect on Fowles' views on the art of fiction and on the relationship of literature to life.

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H. Holt
Language
English
Pages
404

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Cover of: Krotovye nory
Krotovye nory
2002, Makhaon
in Russian
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Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings
May 15, 1999, Owl Books: Henry Holt
Paperback in English
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Wormholes: essays and occasional writings
1999, H. Holt
in English - 1st Owl Books ed.
Cover of: Wormholes
Wormholes
October 7, 1999, Vintage
Paperback - New Ed edition
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Wormholes
October 7, 1999, Vintage
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Wormholes: essays and occasional writings
1998, H. Holt
in English - 1st ed.
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Wormholes: essays and occasional writings
1998, Jonathan Cape
in English
Cover of: Wormholes
Wormholes: essays and occasional writings
1998, H. Holt
in English - 1st ed.
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Wormholes
September 3, 1998, Jonathan Cape

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Table of Contents

Introduction / Jan Relf
I. Autobiographical: Writing and the Self. I Write Therefore I Am (1964). Notes on an Unfinished Novel (1969). Foreword to the Poems (1973). Of Memoirs and Magpies (1983/1994). The Filming of The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981). A Modern Writer's France (1988). Behind The Magus (1994). The J. R. Fowles Club (1995). Greece (1996). The John Fowles Symposium, Lyme Regis, July 1966 (1997)
II. Culture and Society. On Being English but Not British (1964). Gather Ye Starlets (1965). The Falklands and a Death Foretold (1982)
III. Literature and Literary Criticism. My Recollections of Kafka (1970). Conan Doyle (1974). Hardy and the Hag (1977). "Eliduc" and the Lais of Marie de France (1974/78). Moliere's Dom Juan (1981). Ebenezer Le Page (1981). John Aubrey and the Genesis of the Monumenta Britannica (1982). Golding and "Golding" (1986). The Lost Domaine of Alain-Fournier (1986). Thomas Hardy's England (1984). The Man Who Died: A Commentary (1992)
IV. Nature and the Nature of Nature. Weeds, Bugs, Americans (1970). The Blinded Eye (1971). Shipwreck (1975). Islands (1978). Land (1985). Collectors' Items: Introduction (1996). The Nature of Nature (1995)
V. An Interview. An Unholy Inquisition: John Fowles and Dianne Vipond (1995).

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
824/.914
Library of Congress
PR6056.O85 W6 1998, PR6056.O85W6 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxv, 404 p. ;
Number of pages
404

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OL24755326M
Internet Archive
wormholesessayso00fowl
ISBN 10
0805058672
ISBN 13
9780805058673
LCCN
97042986
OCLC/WorldCat
37801463
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"I have never really wanted to be a novelist."

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