John Fowles: The Essential Guide (Vintage Living Texts, 6) - Softcover

Noakes, Jonathan; Reynolds, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099460882 ISBN 13: 9780099460886

Publisher: Vintage, 2003

Synopsis

The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, A MaggotIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of John Fowles. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with John Fowles, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Fowles's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all three novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, extracts from reviews, a critical overview, a biography, bibliography and a glossary of literary terms.

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Book Description:

With an exclusive author interview

Synopsis:

In "Vintage Living Texts", teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of John Fowles. This guide deals with Fowles' themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all three novels, viz. "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "The Magus", "A Maggot", questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, extracts from reviews, a critical overview, a biography, bibliography and a glossary of literary terms.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099460882
• ISBN 13: 9780099460886
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240