The Ebony Tower 
In the introduction to the second story in this collection, a translation of Marie de France's 12th century lay 'Eliduc', Fowles attributes to Celtic romance 'the very essence of what we have meant ever since by the fictional, the novel and it's children, to this strange northern invasion of the medieval mind'.Maybe, maybe not. There are plenty of pre-existing literary forms, from the Greek to the Norse, which could make an equal if not greater claim, but let's indulge him here. The title story,
This book was chosen by my book club. I had read The Collector and The French Lieutenant's Woman years ago and looked forward to reading The Ebony Tower. I liked two stories out of the five - Poor Koko and The Enigma. I found the others (all five are novellas more than short stories) too wordy, very sexist and difficult to get into. I don't mind complicated stories but I really don't like it when I have to look up a lot of words. I find it pretentious and it makes me feel a bit stupid and

Excellent.
The ebony tower by John FowlesEbony towerThe first story is that of a young married man who used to be an artist and is now more into journalism, going to interview an old artist, Henry Breasley. The old man lives with two very young women on a farm in the French countryside; Mouse and Freak. They do a lot for the old man including cook, keep house, keep him painting and provide him with company and sex. They are all artists although the women are so busy looking after Henry that they neglect
Collection of five novellas from the genius that is Fowles. Stunningly brilliant, eloquent and profoundly intelligent. It is surely impossible not to learn from this man about both writing and life itself. This writer took literature towards a new frontier. Amazing.
exquisitely written bourgeois entertainment. perhaps not the edifying exploration of emotion, identity, and human nature that the author intended - and rather a comedown after my excellent experience with his brilliant A Maggot - but a pleasant trifle nonetheless. Fowles has a beautiful hand with the prose; his characterization is deep and nuanced but unfortunately the characters themselves are quite uninteresting, so rather sadly it will be all those pretty sentences strung together that I will
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Title | : | The Ebony Tower |
Author | : | John Fowles |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
Published | : | April 3rd 1997 by Vintage Classics (first published 1974) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Short Stories. Literary Fiction. Classics. Literature |
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The Ebony Tower is a series of novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In the title story, a journalist visiting a celebrated but reclusive painter is intrigued by the elderly artist's relationship with two beautiful young women. John Fowles reputation as a master storyteller was further advanced by this collection, which echoed themes and preoccupations from his other books.Describe Books In Favor Of The Ebony Tower
Original Title: | The Ebony Tower |
ISBN: | 0099480514 (ISBN13: 9780099480518) |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | Henry Breasley, David Williams |
Setting: | United Kingdom France |
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Ratings: 3.7 From 3365 Users | 140 ReviewsDiscuss Containing Books The Ebony Tower
In a 1971 interview about his brilliant first novel The Magus, John Fowles admitted that he was obsessed by the basic idea of a secret world, whose penetration involved ordeal and whose final reward was self-knowledge. This passage from Joseph Campbells groundbreaking 1949 study The Hero With a Thousand Faces could have been written with a Fowles protagonist in mind:"Once having traversed the threshold, the hero moves in a dream landscape of curiously fluid, ambiguous forms, where he mustIn the introduction to the second story in this collection, a translation of Marie de France's 12th century lay 'Eliduc', Fowles attributes to Celtic romance 'the very essence of what we have meant ever since by the fictional, the novel and it's children, to this strange northern invasion of the medieval mind'.Maybe, maybe not. There are plenty of pre-existing literary forms, from the Greek to the Norse, which could make an equal if not greater claim, but let's indulge him here. The title story,
This book was chosen by my book club. I had read The Collector and The French Lieutenant's Woman years ago and looked forward to reading The Ebony Tower. I liked two stories out of the five - Poor Koko and The Enigma. I found the others (all five are novellas more than short stories) too wordy, very sexist and difficult to get into. I don't mind complicated stories but I really don't like it when I have to look up a lot of words. I find it pretentious and it makes me feel a bit stupid and

Excellent.
The ebony tower by John FowlesEbony towerThe first story is that of a young married man who used to be an artist and is now more into journalism, going to interview an old artist, Henry Breasley. The old man lives with two very young women on a farm in the French countryside; Mouse and Freak. They do a lot for the old man including cook, keep house, keep him painting and provide him with company and sex. They are all artists although the women are so busy looking after Henry that they neglect
Collection of five novellas from the genius that is Fowles. Stunningly brilliant, eloquent and profoundly intelligent. It is surely impossible not to learn from this man about both writing and life itself. This writer took literature towards a new frontier. Amazing.
exquisitely written bourgeois entertainment. perhaps not the edifying exploration of emotion, identity, and human nature that the author intended - and rather a comedown after my excellent experience with his brilliant A Maggot - but a pleasant trifle nonetheless. Fowles has a beautiful hand with the prose; his characterization is deep and nuanced but unfortunately the characters themselves are quite uninteresting, so rather sadly it will be all those pretty sentences strung together that I will
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