by John Fowles · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330298117
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«The French Lieutenant's Woman» is the historical novel by John Fowles, published by Picador in paperback (446 pages, in English).
Set in Victorian England of 1867, it follows Charles Smithson, a gentleman engaged to be married who is drawn to Sarah Woodruff, the enigmatic «woman of the French lieutenant». It recreates the Victorian style and explores free will, determinism and social conventions, with several alternative endings.
Novel originally published in 1969, in this 1987 Picador edition. Winner of the WH Smith Literary Award in 1970.
For readers of literary fiction and historical novels, especially those who enjoy nineteenth-century English narrative.
John Robert Fowles was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
