The French Lieutenant's Woman

✍ Scribed by John Fowles

• Publisher: Vintage Books; Random House
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 326 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0099541580

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 445 pages
Published 1969
Vintage (2010)
McCaffery 100 Greatest Fiction
Time Magazine 100 Best Novels
Widely acclaimed since publication, John Fowles' most beloved novel is the ultimate epic historical romance.
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.
The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset's Lyme Bay..."the largest bite from the underside of England's out-stretched southwestern leg." The major characters in the love-intrigue triangle are Charles Smithson, 32, a gentleman of independent means & vaguely scientific bent; his fiancée, Ernestina Freeman, a pretty heiress daughter of a wealthy & pompous dry goods merchant; & Sarah Woodruff, mysterious & fascinating...deserted after a brief affair with a French naval officer a short time before the story begins. Obsessed with an irresistible fascination for the enigmatic Sarah, Charles is hurtled by a moment of consummated lust to the brink of the existential void. Duty dictates that his engagement to Tina must be broken as he goes forth once again to seek the woman who has captured his Victorian soul & gentleman's heart.