An edition of The Collector (1900)

The Collector (Contemporary Classics)

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An edition of The Collector (1900)

The Collector (Contemporary Classics)

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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Vintage
Language
English
Pages
288

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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

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1960s

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Collector
Collector
February 5, 2004, VINTAGE (RAND)
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Collector (Contemporary Classics)
The Collector (Contemporary Classics)
1998, Vintage
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: The Collector
The Collector
1986, Pan, Pan Books
Paperback
Cover of: The collector
The collector
1986, Pan Books
in English
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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"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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OL7319863M
ISBN 10
009974371X
ISBN 13
9780099743712
Library Thing
7197
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1074815

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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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