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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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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, psychologicalPlaces
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The Collector (Back Bay Books)
August 4, 1997, Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company
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El Coleccionista
June 1983, Aims Intl Books Corp
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The collector
1976, Triad Panther, HarperCollins Distribution Services
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0586044264 9780586044261
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"Privately printed, and individually signed by the author"--Prelim. p. [1]
Accompanied by: "Notes from the editors" (22 p. : ill., ports. ; 19 cm.)
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"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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