The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
—· 445 p· 1967
20th Century ClassicLiterary Canonreflectivephilosophicalhauntingmysterious
Overview
About
By the author of The Collector and The Magus, a haunting love story of the Victorian era. Over one year on the N.Y. Times Bestseller List and an international bestseller. "Filled with enchanting mysteries, charged with erotic possibilities . .
—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, N.Y. Times
Pages
445
Little Brown
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
5/5
Profound
Rating
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Reader feel
Narration10
Metafictional Play10
Prose9
Victorian Social Critique9
Worldbuilding8
Emotional depth8
Plot twists7
Pacing6
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