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John Fowles was a British author whose professional career began in 1963. He was born on March 31, 1926, and died on November 5, 2005. His literary output includes works such as *The Magus*, *THE COLLECTOR JOHN FOWLES*, *the aristos*, *A Maggot*, and *Miśḥaḳ ha-el*. Open Library records indicate he has 154 works, while Crossref lists five. His writings are categorized with tags including Audiobook and E-Book.
Fowles is associated with several recorded quotes, including statements about intelligence and marriage. One quote notes that "There are only two races on this planet — the intelligent and the stupid." Another observes that "Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want." His official website is fowlesbooks.com.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1926
- Died
- 2005
- Works
- 154
Top works
- Miśḥaḳ ha-el
- The Magus
- THE COLLECTOR JOHN FOWLES
- the aristos
- A Maggot
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 144
- Total plays
- 2,531
Tags
John Robert Fowles (March 31, 1926 – November 5, 2005) was an English novelist and essayist. In late 1960, though he had already drafted The Magus, Fowles began working on The Collector. He finished his first draft in a month, but spent more than a year making revisions before showing it to his agent. Michael S. Howard, the publisher at Jonathan Cape was enthusiastic about the manuscript. The book was published in 1963 and when the paperback rights <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Fowles
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,297x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,878x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,530x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,118x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “There are only two races on this planet — the intelligent and the stupid.”
- “I know what I am to him. A butterfly he has always wanted to catch. I remember (the very first time I met him) G.P. saying that collectors were the worst animals of all. He meant art collectors, of course. I didn’t really understand, I thought he was just trying to shock Caroline — and me. But of course, he is right. They’re anti-life, anti-art, anti-everything.”
- “He’s so slow, so unimaginative, so lifeless. Like zinc white. I see it’s a sort of tyranny he has over me. He forces me to be changeable, to act. To show off. The hateful tyranny of weak people.”
- “Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don’t care.”
- “I don’t think the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has much chance of actually affecting the government. It’s one of the first things you have to face up to. But we do it to keep our self-respect to show to ourselves, each one to himself or herself, that we care. And to let other people, all the lazy, sulky, hopeless ones like you, know that someone cares. We’re trying to shame you into thinking about it, about acting.”
- “Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Encyclopedic overview
John Robert Fowles (/faʊlz/; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
After leaving Oxford University, Fowles taught English at a school on the Greek island of Spetses, a sojourn that inspired The Magus (1965), an instant best-seller that was directly in tune with 1960s "hippy" anarchism and experimental philosophy. This was followed by The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), a Victorian-era romance with a postmodern twist that was set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, where Fowles lived for much of his life. Later fictional works include The Ebony Tower (1974), Daniel Martin (1977), Mantissa (1982), and A Maggot (1985).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Fowles” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.