The French Lieutenant's Woman
by Fowles, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Austin, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Little, Brown And Company, 1969. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. The outstanding third novel by the inimitable Fowles, author of the earlier haunting novels The Collector and The Magus. His prose both dazzles and devastates, and this novel was also made into the brilliant movie of the same name starring Meryl Streep. Book is in VG condition. Spine is straight, no dog ears or torn pages and text block is very bright. Former owner's name is penned into ffep. No other markings to book. Minor shelf wear to board corners and ends of spine. Overall, it is a very tight and desirable copy.
Synopsis
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), by John Fowles, is a period novel inspired by the 1823 novel Ourika, by Claire de Duras, which Fowles translated to English during 1977 (and revised in 1994). He was a great aficionado of Thomas Hardy, and, in particular, likened his heroine, Sarah Woodruff, to Tess Durbeyfield, the protagonist of Hardy’s popular novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891).
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- Bookseller
- Rare Binds
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10118
- Title
- The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Author
- Fowles, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1969
- Pages
- 480
- Keywords
- Historical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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