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 I said, if you asked me to stop collecting butterflies, I'd do it. I'd do anything you asked me.

'Except let me fly away. '

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The first novel of John Fowles (who was later to write The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus). Published in 1963, it tells a story of Frederick Clegg, a butterfly-collecting maniac who won 73,091 pounds and bought a house in the wilderness only to kidnap Miranda Grey. Miranda being the girl whom he had stalked for a long time.

He imprisons her in a luxuriously furnished cellar. The story, shaped very much like a thriller, is told both from the viewpoint of the kidnapper and of his victim. It consists mainly of dialogues between the two, in which Frederick tries to talk Miranda to marrying him and she attempts to persuade him to let her out. The plot is simple, but contrasting personalities of frighteningly quiet, barbaric Frederick and impatient Miranda, who is a student of art and a novice painter, produce a lot of tension.


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