I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never r… - John Fowles

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I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.

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About John Fowles

John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist and essayist.

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Alternative Names: John Robert Fowles
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