The French Liutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Set in Victorian Lyme Regis, the novel follows a respectable young gentleman who becomes obsessed with an enigmatic, ostracized woman—rumored to have been abandoned by a French lieutenant—whose independence and scandalous reputation threaten his conventional engagement and social standing. Mixing richly observed period detail with a self-aware, intrusive narrator, the story probes class and sexual politics, the limits of Victorian respectability, and the nature of choice and narrative authority, even offering multiple, deliberately unresolved endings that force readers to confront uncertainty about freedom and responsibility.
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- 1969
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- British
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- Original Language
- English
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