John Fowles
June, 1970
In chapter 13 of The French Lieutenant's Woman, Englishman John Fowles interrupts his 19th Century novel to remind us that he has been using "a convention universally accepted at the time of my story: that the novelist stands next to God. He may not know all, yet he tries to pretend that he does." But Fowles does not pretend to know all, and believing in what he calls "the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist," he breaks the Victorian tradition by writing three endings...
