num_pages: 366
description: As part of Back Bay's ongoing effort to make the works of John Fowles available in uniform trade paperback editions, two major works in the Fowles canon are reissued to coincide with the publication of Wormholes, the author's long-awaited new collection of essays and occasional writings. Perhaps the most beloved of Fowles's internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel. "Filled with enchanting mysteries and magically erotic possibilities" (New York Times), the novel inspired the hugely successful 1981 film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons and is today universally regarded as a modern classic. In A Maggot, originally published in 1985, Fowles reaches back to the eighteenth century to offer readers a glimpse into the future. Time magazine called the result "hypnotic....A remarkable achievement. Part detective story, part crackling courtroom drama....An immensely rich and readable novel".
language: English
title: The French Lieutenant's Woman
titlecomplete: The French Lieutenant's Woman
characters: Dr Grogan, Ernestina Freeman, Charles Smithson, Sam Farrow, Mrs. Poulteney, Sarah Woodruff
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 52050
places: Lyme Regis, England, Dorset, England, Exeter, Devon, England, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: WH Smith Literary Award
publisher: Signet