by John Fowles
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.
The Collector
3,00 €
1 in stock
Description
This tale of obsessive love–the story of a lonely clerk who collects butterflies and of the beautiful young art student who is his ultimate quarry–remains unparalleled in its power to startle and mesmerize.
“A bravura first novel…As a horror story, this book is a remarkable tour de force.”
–New Yorker
“A superb novel…Evil has seldom been so sinister.”
–Time
Additional information
| Book Condition | Used – Good |
|---|---|
| Cover | Paperback |
| Size | 283 pages |
| Published | December 31, 1986 by Pan Books |
| Genre | Fiction, Classics, Crime, Horror |
Related products
-
-70% Off
Original price was: 4,00 €.1,20 €Current price is: 1,20 €.Adventures of Tom and Huck #1
by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel’s schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife.
-
-70% Off
Original price was: 6,00 €.1,80 €Current price is: 1,80 €.by Celia Laskey
When a group of social activists arrive in a small town, the lives and beliefs of residents and outsiders alike are upended, in this wry, embracing novel.
-
-70% Off
Original price was: 6,00 €.1,80 €Current price is: 1,80 €.by Philip Pullman
Will is twelve years old and he’s just killed a man. Now he’s on his own, on the run, determined to discover the truth about his father disappearance.
Then Will steps through a window in the air into another world, and finds himself with a companion – a strange, savage little girl called Lyra. Like Will, she has a mission which she intends to carry out at all costs.
-
-70% Off
Original price was: 3,00 €.0,90 €Current price is: 0,90 €.by H.E. Bates
In Kashmir, a small expatriate community seek shelter from the fighting in a Catholic mission. But the tribesmen who sweep down from the hills are bent on rape and massacre.
-
-70% Off
Original price was: 6,00 €.1,80 €Current price is: 1,80 €.by Joseph Conrad
First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century.
-
-70% Off
Original price was: 6,00 €.1,80 €Current price is: 1,80 €.Fortune’s Rocks #1
by Anita Shreve
A meditation on the erotic life of women, an exploration of class prejudices, and most of all a portrayal of the thoughts and actions of an unforgettable young woman.
-
-70% Off
Original price was: 5,00 €.1,50 €Current price is: 1,50 €.by Giles Kristian
The first book in a thrilling Viking trilogy that launched the career of acclaimed historical novelist Giles Kristian – who’s now confronting the tumult and devastation of the English Civil War in The Bleeding Land…
-
-30% Off
Original price was: 5,00 €.3,50 €Current price is: 3,50 €.by Stephen White
What if you could choose when to die?
But once you decide, you can’t change your mind.
Ever.
No matter what. -
-70% Off
Original price was: 3,00 €.0,90 €Current price is: 0,90 €.by Mikhail Lermontov, Paul Foote (Translator, Introduction)
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and ’30s.
-
-30% Off
Original price was: 3,00 €.2,10 €Current price is: 2,10 €.by John Steinbeck
As Nobel Prize winner Steinbeck chronicles their deeds—their multiple lovers, their wonderful brawls, their Rabelaisian wine-drinking—he spins a tale as compelling and ultimately as touched by sorrow as the famous legends of the Round Table, which inspired him.
-
-70% Off
Original price was: 4,00 €.1,20 €Current price is: 1,20 €.Star Wars Legends Universe
by Troy DenningHan and Leia struggle to keep the Empire at bay as stunning revelations from the past threaten to eclipse the future of the New Republic. . . .
-
-10% Off
Original price was: 16,50 €.14,85 €Current price is: 14,85 €.by Jonathan Coe
Winner of the 1998 Prix Médicis Étranger, The House of Sleep is an intensely moving and frequently hilarious novel about love, obsession and sleep.