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English novelist (1926–2005)
Also known as: John Robert Fowles, Джон Роберт Фаулз, جون فاولز, 존 파울즈, ジョン・ファウルズ, 约翰·福尔斯
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Peter Ackroyd1949–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHistoriographic metafiction weaving past and present with literary pastiche. (AI reason)
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- The Collector (1983)
- The Magus (1965)
- The French Lieutenant's Woman (1977)
- The tree (1979)
- The aristos (1964)