The Collector

John Fowles's debut novel "The Collector" is unlike any other books by the author or any other works in the "psychological thriller" genre. A lonely, dim-witted, and simply unpleasant young man unexpectedly wins a huge sum of money in the lottery. What will he do with it, especially considering his passion for collecting butterflies and his secret love for the local beauty?

In the story of the confrontation between a maniac and his victim, Fowles saw a Shakespearean "Tempest", the struggle between Good and Evil, the primitive everyman and the elevated artist, Love, Death, and Beauty.