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Poulteney, an elderly widow who has taken her on as a secretary. At lyme regis on the dorset coast, a young victorian amateur palaentologist, charles smithson, is struck by a solitary figure standing at the far end of the cobb, staring out to sea. Existentialism and darwinism provide a means of viewing the development of personal freedom in a young english gentleman, charles smithson. John fowles s story of a chance encounter between a wealthy gentleman and a mysterious woman with a bad reputation explores social conventions governing victorian england. The writer is very much the craftsman, with almost every sentence perfect.
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