The Collector
Psychopaths
English Horror tales
Butterflies
Translations into Russian
Collection and preservation
Mentally ill
England
Kidnapping
Collectors and collecting
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Young women
Crimes against
Fiction, psychological
Art
Fiction
Fowles’ stunning debut is a study of a lonely young sociopath who kidnaps the woman he has fixated on, keeping her in his cellar in the belief that she will eventually come to love him. The story is narrated in turns by the young man and his captive, giving two opposing points of view.
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