by John Fowles · HarperCollins Distribution Services · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586034033
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«The French Lieutenant's Woman» is the historical fiction novel by John Fowles, published by HarperCollins Distribution Services in paperback (399 pages, in English).
Set in Victorian England of 1867, it follows Charles Smithson, a gentleman and amateur naturalist, and Sarah Woodruff, the governess known as the French lieutenant's woman. Fowles examines sexual repression, social conventions and the hypocrisy of the era, questioning the Victorian novel with modern devices.
It is John Fowles's third novel, after The Collector and The Magus. It was originally published in 1969 and won the WH Smith Literary Award; this paperback edition dates from 1971.
For readers of classic fiction and British literature who want a critical and sophisticated look at the Victorian era.
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.
