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  • Published: 1 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409059851
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

The Ebony Tower




An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers, in our new Fowles livery.

An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers.

A journalist visits an elderly painter and becomes intrigued by his young female companions. Four years' worth of book research is set on fire in front of a writer. A successful MP disappears without a trace.

Written with stylistic innovation, this sequence of novellas exploring the nature of art echoes the themes and preoccupations of Fowles' earlier work and cements his position as a master storyteller.

'Pick up any of these stories and you won't, as they say, be able to put it down' Financial Times

  • Published: 1 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409059851
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

About the author

John Fowles

John Fowles was born in 1926. He won international recognition with The Collector, his first published title, in 1963. He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power, and this reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works: The Aristos, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa, and A Maggot. John Fowles died in Lyme Regis in 2005. Two volumes of his Journals have recently been published; the first in 2003, the second in 2006.

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Praise for The Ebony Tower

This is an immensely stimulating book, rich in imagery, sure in dialogue, profound in characterization, dazzling in its descriptive powers and constantly haunting with its Celtic rhythms and its bold, elegant design

The Times

This collection of five novellas confirms that in terms of technical resourcefulness and narrative skill he has few equals among the living novelists. The novella which gives the book its title strikes me as being the finest thing Fowles has written

Observer

In a manner worthy of Pirandello, John Fowles uses the conventional apparatus of the detective-story to explore the relationship between fact and fiction, reality and illusion, to masterly effect

Sunday Telegraph

Arresting...this collection impresses me as deeply as any of the novels which Fowles has published to date

Guardian

Pick up any of these stories and you won't, as they say, be able to put it down

Financial Times

This collection of five novellas confirms that in terms of technical resourcefulness and narrative skill he has few equals among the living novelists. The novella which gives the book its title strikes me as being the finest thing Fowles has written

Observer

In a manner worthy of Pirandello, John Fowles uses the conventional apparatus of the detective-story to explore the relationship between fact and fiction, reality and illusion, to masterly effect

Sunday Telegraph

Arresting...this collection impresses me as deeply as any of the novels which Fowles has published to date

Guardian

Pick up any of these stories and you won't, as they say, be able to put it down

Financial Times

This is an immensely stimulating book, rich in imagery, sure in dialogue, profound in characterization, dazzling in its descriptive powers and constantly haunting with its Celtic rhythms and its bold, elegant design

The Times