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Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate, runs away from his monotonous life to take up a teaching post on the small Greek island of Phraxos. There he meets the enigmatic figure of Maurice Conchis, and slowly gets drawn into a world full of strange encounters and psychological tricks on Conchis' estate at Bourani. When Conchis introduces Nicholas to the enchanting and mysterious Lily Montgomery, reality and illusion begin to intertwine.

Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.

The Ebony Tower, comprising a novella, three stories, and a translation of a medieval French tale, echoes themes from John Fowles' internationally celebrated novels as it probes the fitful relations between love and hate, pleasure and pain, and fantasy and reality.

John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.

John Fowles won international acclaim for his innovative, allusive novels The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman. All were critical and commercial successes, translated into several languages and adapted as feature films. This collection brings together the BBC Radio adaptations of these three modern classics, with stellar casts including Judi Dench, Charles Dance and John Hurt.

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick is a loner who collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda, whom he watches from afar. When he wins the pools, he buys a remote Sussex country house and painstakingly works to make the cellar a comfortable prison. He then calmly abducts Miranda, believing that she will inevitably grow to love him in time if she just gets to know him.

Det er en kold og blæsende martsdag i 1867. Yderst på molen i den lille by Lyme Regis på Englands sydkyst står en ung, sortklædt kvinde og stirrer ud over havet. Mødet med hende bliver skæbnesvangert og et vendepunkt i unge Charles Smithsons liv. "Den franske løjtnants kvinde" er en spændende og velfortalt kærlighedshistorie om to unge menneskers forsøg på at undslippe victoriatidens tyranniske hykleri. Men bogen er mere end det. John Fowles har villet skildre den victorianske tid, som den tager sig ud for vor tids mennesker.

Mr. Clegg er kontorist og sommerfuglesamler, en pæn lille mand og et beskedent menneske. En dag vinder han den store præmie i tips, kvitter sit job og køber et ensomt beliggende hus på landet. Kælderen indretter han som fangerum. Han er nemlig blevet betaget af den smukke unge Miranda. Hun minder ham om en sommerfugl, et sjældent smukt eksemplar, som han absolut må have.

En ung abstrakt maler aflægger besøg hos den gamle kunstmaler Henry Breasley. Mødet mellem de to kunstnere bliver en skelsættende begivenhed for den unge maler.

Nicholas Urfe har fået stilling som privatlærer på den lille græske ø Phraxos. Her involveres han i den rige excentriker Conchis' mægtigt iscenesatte spil hvor grænserne mellem fiktion og virkelighed opløses.