Collector by John Fowles
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(Paperback - Reprint)
- Pub. Date: August 1997
- 320pp
- Sales Rank: 17,110
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- ISBN-13: 9780316290234
- ISBN: 0316290238
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
Miranda, a beautiful young art student, is the object of obsession here. She becomes the ultimate prize for the psychopathic Frederick, the butterfly collector who has watched her for years. Then one day, chloroform in his pocket, he takes her to his cottage miles from no where. "What happens is both symbolic and all too real, beautiful and sickening at once... as resonant as a myth," wrote one reviewer in the National Review. Read as a psychological thriller, a tale of suspence, or an allegory of a dysfunctional society, The Collector is hauntingly beautiful in its examination of evil.
There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that its author is a master storyteller.
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Speechlessby KatieMShan
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July 05, 2009: This book kept me on the edge. I don't think I have ever read a book faster. The guy in this book is not your typical crazy guy and I can't imagine the mind it took to write this, especially the way John Fowles did. INCREDIBLE BOOK!
great bookby Anonymous
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March 09, 2008: i just finished this book today and it was really interesting. but i made the mistake of watchin the movie first so it basicly ruined it for me. but otherwise it was a really great book. i reccomend it for people of high school age and up.
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