Saturday, October 16, 2010

John Fowles (1926-2005)

The French Lieutenant's Woman


Characters:
  • Lyme Regis - town
  • Sarah Woodruff
  • Varguennes
  • Charles Smithson
Plot summary:
  • plot concerns love affair between Victorian gentleman and a woman jilted by a French officer
  • inspired by Claire de Duras's novel Ourika
  • "Perhaps it is only a game. Modern women like Sarah exist and I have never understood them."

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