The Ebony Tower
Overview
John Fowles
John Robert Fowles was an English novelist and essayist. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Fowles among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Birth and family:...
is a collection of five short novels with interlacing themes, built around a medieval myth: The Ebony Tower, Eliduc, Poor Koko, The Enigma and The Cloud.
Henry Breasley is an elderly painter whose secluded retirement is invaded by a brash young artist commissioned to write a biographical study of the great man. Breasley shares his home with two young English girls, both former art students, Diana and Anne.
Quotations
Henry Breasley: Paint. Just paint. This is my advice. And leave the clever talk to the poor sods who can't.
The princess calls, but there is no one, now, to hear her.
The tender pragmatisms of flesh have poetries no enigma - human or divine - can deminish or demeanor. Indeed, it can only cause them, and then walk out.
Category:Novels