The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

The novel's protagonist is Sarah Woodruff, the title Woman, also known by the nickname of “Tragedy”, and by the unfortunate nickname “The French Lieutenant’s Whore”. She lives in the coastal town of Lyme Regis, as a disgraced woman, supposedly abandoned by a French naval officer named Varguennes--married, unknown to her, to another woman-- with whom she had supposedly had an affair and who had returned to France.

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This book is on the following lists:

  1. - 53rd on The 100 Greatest Novels (greatbooksguide.com)
  2. - 65th on Waterstone's Books of the Century (LibraryThing)
  3. - 77th on 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction (Larry McCaffery)
  4. - 93rd on Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels (Radcliffe Publishing Course)
  5. - TIME Magazine All Time 100 Novels (TIME Magazine)
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