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| Title | : | The Ebony Tower |
| Author | : | John Fowles |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | April 3rd 1997 by Vintage Classics (first published 1974) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Short Stories. Literary Fiction. Classics. Literature |
John Fowles
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.7 | 3365 Users | 140 Reviews
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The Ebony Tower is a series of novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In the title story, a journalist visiting a celebrated but reclusive painter is intrigued by the elderly artist's relationship with two beautiful young women. John Fowles reputation as a master storyteller was further advanced by this collection, which echoed themes and preoccupations from his other books.Declare Books Supposing The Ebony Tower
| Original Title: | The Ebony Tower |
| ISBN: | 0099480514 (ISBN13: 9780099480518) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Henry Breasley, David Williams |
| Setting: | United Kingdom France |
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Ratings: 3.7 From 3365 Users | 140 ReviewsArticle Out Of Books The Ebony Tower
Collection of five novellas from the genius that is Fowles. Stunningly brilliant, eloquent and profoundly intelligent. It is surely impossible not to learn from this man about both writing and life itself. This writer took literature towards a new frontier. Amazing.Excellent.
In the proper John Fowles tradition, this collection is well crafted and somewhat off the wall. It's not every book you pick up that contains a novella, a translation of an 11th-century Celtic romance, a mock autobiographical tale, and two short stories. It gives the impression that these were some items that the author had lying around and decided randomly to bring together for publication. As such, it worked pretty well as a summer holiday read, offering a few tidbits that engaged without
I don't know what my issue was here, but reading this felt like a plodding chore. Fowles' prose is still a delight, but I don't know if his storytelling works for me in the short fiction mode. The title story was sort of a light Magus, in fitting with his "variations" theme for the collection, but it doesn't reach the scope of the longer novel, despite threading in a wonderful sense of dread. There's no real release to the tension. The Cloud is the other worthwhile story, but even that suffers
In the introduction to the second story in this collection, a translation of Marie de France's 12th century lay 'Eliduc', Fowles attributes to Celtic romance 'the very essence of what we have meant ever since by the fictional, the novel and it's children, to this strange northern invasion of the medieval mind'.Maybe, maybe not. There are plenty of pre-existing literary forms, from the Greek to the Norse, which could make an equal if not greater claim, but let's indulge him here. The title story,
Speed dating with books 3/6Since I am moving my books from one room to another and building a new bookcase I realized (again) that I have way too many unread books. I decided to choose 6 (for the beginning) of the ones waiting on my shelves for a long time or that I do not know if I would like, read 50 pages and decide if I want to continue with them or send them away. This week and the next I will share with you the results.The Ebony Tower is a collection of novellas by John Fowles. I was
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