英国作家John_Fowles.pptVIP

* John Robert Fowles (March 31, 1926 – November 5, 2005) was an English novelist and essayist. Major works The Collecter, 1963 The magus, 1965 The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1969 The Ebony Tower, 1974 Daniel Martin, 1977 Mantissa, 1982 A Maggot, 1985 Biography Fowles spent his childhood attended by his mother and by his cousin Peggy Fowles. Fowles attended Alleyn Court Preparatory School. During 1939, Fowles won a position at Bedford School. His time at Bedford coincided with the Second World War. Fowles was a student at Bedford until 1944. After leaving Bedford School during 1944, Fowles enrolled in a Naval Short Course at Edinburgh University. He completed his training on May 8, 1945. Fowles was assigned instead to Okehampton Camp in the countryside near Devon for two years. During 1947, after completing his military service, Fowles entered New College, Oxford, where he studied both French and German. It was also at Oxford that Fowles first considered life as a writer, particularly after reading existentialists like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Though Fowles did not identify as an existentialist, their writing, like Fowles, was motivated from a feeling that the world was wrong. New College, Oxford, where Fowles attended university. Teaching career Fowles spent his early adult life as a teacher. His first year after Oxford was spent at the University of Poitiers. At the end of the year, he received two offers: one from the French department at Winchester, the other from a ratty school in Greece, Fowles took the Greek job. During 1951, Fowles met his future wife Elizabeth Christy. Fowles was happy in Greece, especially outside of the school. He wrote poems that he later published, and became close to his fellow exiles. But during 1953 Fowles and the other masters at the school were all dismissed for trying to institute reforms, and Fowles returned to England. On April 2, 1954 Fowles and Elizabeth were married and Fowles became stepfather to Elizabeths daugh