![]() ![]() ![]() It failed to live up to the success of his earlier work. In it, the eponymous lead character is a disenchanted scriptwriter working amid the superficiality of Hollywood and whose real ambition is to write a novel. Of all John Fowles novels The French Lieutenants Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war. His disdain for the medium is evident in Daniel Martin, the semi-autobiographical epic on which he worked throughout his most creative period. His relationship with the cinema was, like most of the others in his life, ambiguous. In John Fowles’ engrossing novel, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, a Victorian gentleman, Charles Smithson, is by turns entranced, befuddled, and devastated by a mysterious woman who is, according to local gossip, the spurned ex-mistress of a French naval officer. ![]() The Collector was turned into a film in 1965, with Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar in the lead roles, while the adaptation of The Magus, which starred Michael Caine, was an embarrassing failure. Set in his beloved Lyme Regis, where in later life Fowles concentrated on his twin passions of gardening and ornithology as well as completing his one-million-word memoirs, the book was hailed for its finale which offered the reader two alternative conclusions. The French Lieutenant's Woman, its screenplay adapted by Harold Pinter, was made into the five-times Oscar-nominated 1981 film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. ![]()
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