The Collector

About this book

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.

Subjects

• art
• british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
• butterflies
• collection and preservation
• collectors and collecting
• crimes against
• england
• english horror tales
• fiction
• fiction, psychological
• kidnapping
• mentally ill
• psychopaths
• translations into russian
• young women