The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
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Set in Lyme Regis in 1867, 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' tells the story of a woman wronged, depicted against an unrelenting Victorian England.
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The French lieutenant's woman
2005, Vintage
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Cover design by Philip Treacy.
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1969.
Published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, in conjunction with the exhibition "British design, 1948-2012."
Collated 20130717 Complete
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"AN easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay- Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg - and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867."
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By the author of The Collector and The Magus, a haunting love story of the Victorian era. Over one year on the N.Y. Times Bestseller List and an international bestseller. "Filled with enchanting mysteries, charged with erotic possibilities . .
—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, N.Y. Times
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