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The Tree
John Fowles
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John Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex,to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his later life on the Dorset coast, trees filled his imagination and enriched his many acclaimed and best-selling novels.Told through his lifelong relationship with trees, blending autobiography, literary criticism, philosophy and nature writing, The Tree is a masterly, powerful work that laid the literary foundations for nature-as-memoir, a genre which has seen recent flourishings in Roger Deakin's Wildwood, Richard Mabey's Nature Cure, Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways and Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk.As lyrical and precise ... Read more
John Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex,to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his later life on the Dorset coast, trees filled his imagination and enriched his many acclaimed and best-selling novels.Told through his lifelong relationship with trees, blending autobiography, literary criticism, philosophy and nature writing, The Tree is a masterly, powerful work that laid the literary foundations for nature-as-memoir, a genre which has seen recent flourishings in Roger Deakin's Wildwood, Richard Mabey's Nature Cure, Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways and Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk.As lyrical and precise ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little Toller Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
82
Place of Publication
Wimborne Minster, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908213471
SKU
V9781908213471
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Ref
99-14
About John Fowles
John Fowles (1926-2005) is the celebrated author of many novels including The Magus, The Collector, and The French Lieutenant's woman. He was named by The Times ans one of the fifty greatest British writers since the end of the second world war. He lived for much of his life in Lyme Regis.William Fiennes is the multi-award winning author of The ... Read more
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