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The Collector
- Author
- John Fowles
- Narrator
- Hannah Murray, Daniel Rigby
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 4 November 2021
- Run Time
- 8 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick is a loner who collects butterflies and takes photographs.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 painstakingly works to make the cellar a comfortable prison. He then calmly abducts Miranda, believing that she will inevitably grow to love him in time if she just gets to know him.
Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is understand her captor and gain her freedom.
Taught and utterly compelling, Fowles' debut novel The Collector was an instant bestseller when it was published in 1963. It is regarded as one of the best thrillers of all time with one of the most terrifying villains to have ever been created on the page.
© John Fowles 1963 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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He has a magnificent narrative gift...brilliant
Independent
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A brilliant, unusual theme... Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones
Sunday Times
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Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power
Sunday Times
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No book will make you appreciate the great outdoors more than this creepy locked-room horror story
Guardian
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There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that its author is a master storyteller
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Details
- Author
- John Fowles
- Narrator
- Hannah Murray, Daniel Rigby
- Duration
- 8 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 November 2021
- ISBN
- 9781473599765
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general, Classic horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Psychological thriller
Synopsis
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 Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick is a loner who collects butterflies and takes photographs.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 painstakingly works to make the cellar a comfortable prison. He then calmly abducts Miranda, believing that she will inevitably grow to love him in time if she just gets to know him.Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is understand her captor and gain her freedom.Taught and utterly compelling, Fowles' debut novel The Collector was an instant bestseller when it was published in 1963. It is regarded as one of the best thrillers of all time with one of the most terrifying villains to have ever been created on the page.© John Fowles 1963 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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