An edition of The Collector (1900)

Hu die chun meng

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Hu die chun meng
John Fowles, John Fowles
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An edition of The Collector (1900)

Hu die chun meng

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.8 (4 ratings) ·
  • 154 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 19 Have read

Fowles’ stunning debut is a study of a lonely young sociopath who kidnaps the woman he has fixated on, keeping her in his cellar in the belief that she will eventually come to love him. The story is narrated in turns by the young man and his captive, giving two opposing points of view.

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Publisher
Wang jia chu ban she
Language
Chinese
Pages
337

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Previews available in: English Spanish

Subjects

English Horror tales, Butterflies, Collection and preservation, Fiction, Kidnapping, Psychopaths, Mentally ill, Crimes against, Young women, Collectors and collecting, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Psychological fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, English fiction, Thrillers, Fiction, psychological

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England

Times

1960s

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Collector
Collector
February 5, 2004, VINTAGE (RAND)
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Collector (Back Bay Books)
The Collector (Back Bay Books)
August 4, 1997, Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company
Paperback in English
Cover of: Hu die chun meng
Hu die chun meng
1989, Wang jia chu ban she
in Chinese
Cover of: The collector
The collector
1986, Pan Books
in English
Cover of: The Collector
The Collector
1986, Pan, Pan Books
Paperback
Cover of: El Coleccionista
El Coleccionista
June 1983, Aims Intl Books Corp
Paperback in Spanish - Spanish edition
Cover of: The collector
The collector
1977, Dell Pub. Co.
in English - New Dell ed.
Cover of: The collector
The collector
1976, Triad Panther, HarperCollins Distribution Services
in English
Cover of: The collector.
The collector.
1971, Dell Pub. Co.
Cover of: The collector.
The collector.
1963, Little, Brown
in English - [1st American ed.]

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Book Details

Edition Notes

Translation of: The collector / John Fowles.

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Tainan Shi

The Physical Object

Pagination
337 p.
Number of pages
337

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL20323077M
ISBN 10
9573100835
OCLC/WorldCat
23880701

Source records

University of Toronto MARC record

First Sentence

"WHEN she was home from her boarding-school I used to see her almost every day sometimes, because their house was right opposite the Town Hall Annexe."

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