Wormholes - Essays and Occasional Writings (Hardcover)

The author of such modern classics as The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles possesses a restless intelligence and wide-ranging curiosity that has spawned dozens of essays and occasional pieces over the last four decades. This book collects the best of these pieces for the first time -- and presents a fascinating mosaic of Fowles's abiding interests and concerns.

Divided into four categories -- Writing and the Self, Culture and Society, Literature and Literary Criticism, and Nature and the Nature of Nature -- the thirty essays included explore a broad range of subjects. Fowles writes about the magical landscape of his hometown, Lyme Regis, and the not-so-magical filming of his novel The French Lieutenant's Woman. He revisits Thomas Hardy, Franz Kafka, and Truman Capote, and takes the measure of weeds, bugs, and Americans. Bracingly intelligent, effortlessly erudite, and tartly opinionated, Warmholes will be required reading for Fowles's many fans and anyone who admires essay-writing at its most artful and accomplished.