The Collector Author:John Fowles The Power of Passion, — The Power of Evil, — The Power of the Most Spellbinding Storyteller of our Time, — come together in this sensational, million-copy-selling triumph by John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Ebony Tower. — The setting is a lonely cottage in the English countryside. The characters are a brutal, tormente... more »d man and the beautiful, aristocratic young woman whom he has taken captive. The story is the struggle of two wills, two ways of being, two paths of desire - a story that mounts to the most shattering climax in modern fiction.« less