John Fowles.

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“But rather, what the devil am I going to do with you?” In John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman, the unnamed narrator poses this question to himself about the character sleeping before him. Only he isn’t just the narrator; he’s much more than that. He’s part of a group of fictional writers I’ll...

Auriol in use for the cover of The Magus Dell by John Fowles. First published in 1965, this is a paperback edition by Dell (#5162) from 1973. It uses the original cover art by Tom Adams, but with different type. The font in use appears to be (a phototype version of) Auriol Champl

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“Oxford in the late 1940s was ... a happy dream, an alternate world ... in a sense a novel we had heard of, but never actually read until then.”