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1960s: A butterfly collector decides to capture a woman…
The Collector
What you need to know before your trail
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, art student Miranda. Coming into unexpected money, he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time.
Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to understand her captor if she is to gain her freedom…
Locations
Reset- England - London
- A: Slade School of Fine Art
- B: Natural History Museum
- C: Charlotte St
- England - Sussex
- D: Lewes Railway Station
Travel Guide
From London to Sussex, a horror tale of The Collector
A man kidnaps a woman and takes her to his remote farmhouse in Sussx. Not a book for real locations but the darkest recesses of horror…
“I am one in a row of specimens. It’s when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I’m meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it’s the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.”
“Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?”
“It is me. I am his madness. For years he’s been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Collector
Destination : London, Sussex Author/Guide: John Fowles Departure Time:1960s
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