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John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.

Brought to you by Penguin. A remarkable performance... As gripping as The Collector and The Magus' Observer Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and...

Brought to you by Penguin. Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick is a loner who collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda, whom he watches from afar. When he wins the pools, he buys a remote Sussex country house and...

John Fowles won international acclaim for his innovative, allusive novels The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman. All were critical and commercial successes, translated into several languages and adapted as feature films. This collection brings together the BBC Radio adaptations of these three modern classics, with stellar casts including Judi Dench, Charles Dance and John Hurt.

"A superb novel . . . Evil has seldom been so sinister." —Time Hailed as the first modern psychological thriller, The Collector is the internationally bestselling novel that catapulted John Fowles into the front rank of contemporary novelists. This tale of obsessive love—the story of a...

Det er en kold og blæsende martsdag i 1867. Yderst på molen i den lille by Lyme Regis på Englands sydkyst står en ung, sortklædt kvinde og stirrer ud over havet. Mødet med hende bliver skæbnesvangert og et vendepunkt i unge Charles Smithsons liv. "Den franske løjtnants kvinde" er en spændende og velfortalt kærlighedshistorie om to unge menneskers forsøg på at undslippe victoriatidens tyranniske hykleri. Men bogen er mere end det. John Fowles har villet skildre den victorianske tid, som den tager sig ud for vor tids mennesker.

Mr. Clegg er kontorist og sommerfuglesamler, en pæn lille mand og et beskedent menneske. En dag vinder han den store præmie i tips, kvitter sit job og køber et ensomt beliggende hus på landet. Kælderen indretter han som fangerum. Han er nemlig blevet betaget af den smukke unge Miranda. Hun minder ham om en sommerfugl, et sjældent smukt eksemplar, som han absolut må have.

En ung abstrakt maler aflægger besøg hos den gamle kunstmaler Henry Breasley. Mødet mellem de to kunstnere bliver en skelsættende begivenhed for den unge maler.

Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate, runs away from his monotonous life to take up a teaching post on the small Greek island of Phraxos. There he meets the enigmatic figure of Maurice Conchis, and slowly gets drawn into a world full of strange encounters and psychological tricks on Conchis's...

Nicholas Urfe har fået stilling som privatlærer på den lille græske ø Phraxos. Her involveres han i den rige excentriker Conchis' mægtigt iscenesatte spil hvor grænserne mellem fiktion og virkelighed opløses.

Frederick Clegg es un hombre solitario y anodino que colecciona mariposas. Miranda Grey es una radiante e inteligente niña bien que estudia arte en Londres. Frederick, que admira a Miranda pero es incapaz de abordarla con normalidad, la secuestra y la aloja con todas las comodidades en un...