John Fowles takes the tree and the forest as the best analogues of prose fiction, symbolizing the "green man" or the wild part of our psyche from which the artistic impulse is born. He explains the impact of nature on his own life and warns "civilized" man of the deeper and more subtle dangers that attend his traditional rejection of the wild and the chaos it has come to represent. The author also wrote "The Collector", "The Aristos", "The Magus", "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "The Ebony Tower", "Daniel Martin" and "Maggot".
- ISBN10 0316289574
- ISBN13 9780316289573
- Publish Date 1 December 1979 (first published 29 November 1979)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Little Brown and Company
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 122
- Language English