Fowles, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...His first published novel, The Collector (1963; film 1965), is a study of a clerk who is psychologically impelled to kidnap and murder that is, "collect" a girl to whom he is attracted. The Magus (1966, film 1968, rev. ed. 1977) tells of...