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The French Lieutenant's Woman

By: John Fowles
Narrated by: John Hopkins
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A remarkable performance.... As gripping as The Collector and The Magus' Observer.

Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.

Widely acclaimed since publication, The French Lieutenant's Woman is the best-loved of John Fowles' novels.

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A postmodern take on the Victorian novel written in 1969 but set a hundred years earlier exploring the values and attitudes of the time through its characters and their internal thoughts. The mysterious and enigmatic Sarah Woodruff, (the French Lieutenant’s woman), and the gentleman Charles Smithson lead us through a moral and philosophical examination of life, the role and nature of the genders, science and religion, the known and the unknown. Really well read by the narrator and a thought provoking book.

Great book, we’ll read.

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Love the film, which I saw years ago. The book is so much better. Beautifully read too.

Really enjoyable

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The book itself is a classic and thoroughly deserves to be rediscovered. The reading of it could not be bettered in my opinion. What a combination!

stunning reading of a clever tale

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A superb reading of an incredible book. The narrator is fantastic, and will be trying other audiobooks where he has been involved. Probably my favourite combination of novel and narrator I have purchased and will revisit many times. I will be trying The Magus next.

Brilliant

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A very strange story with many references to Victorian writers and attitudes of the time.

unusual tale

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