标题: 《The collector》作者： - John Fowles【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-10-27 12:19 标题: 《The collector》作者： - John Fowles【EPUB】 THE COLLECTOR by John Fowles flyleaf: Rarely does a publisher introduce a novel of such devastating power. We invite you to open the first page of _The Collector_. We believe you will be compelled to read on. He tells the story first -- Frederick Clegg, an obscure little clerk and a collector of butterflies who one day goes on to net his finest specimen, Miss Miranda Grey, a soft, lovely twenty-year-old. In his colorless yet curiously expressive words, he tells of the months in which he stood by the office window and watched for the beautiful Miranda whenever she was home from art school. Then Frederick Clegg suddenly wins a fortune in a football pool and devises an ingenious way to make his dream come true: _I thought, I can't get to know her in the ordinary way, but if she's with me, she'll see my good points, she'll understand. There was always the idea she would understand. I only wanted