SUMMARY

Title : The Collector
Author : John Fowles
Year : 1980
Publisher : Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
City : New York
Page : 255
This book tells about Clegg Frederick's life. He is a young man who grew up with less of love. He lost his father in a car accident and her mother left him to his aunt and uncle. He loved his uncle very much but, his uncle was dead when he was fifteen. No one really loves him after that. He was not well educated man. He liked to collect butterflies for pleasure. One day he got a big luck. He won a lot of money from the lottery. He made his aunt, cousin and some of his friends happy with the money. He bought a big house on the village and a new car. He loved a beautiful young woman. Her name is Miranda. She was a well educated woman. He liked her very much but, he was not brave enough to tell her. He followed her everywhere she went. One day, he had a plan to kidnap her. Then he did it. He kept her at the cellar on his house. He gave her everything she wanted but the freedom. She had done a lot of things to go away from that house but she failed. She hated him very much but she also pitied him of all his past. At last, she gave him her body but Clegg didn’t want it. He just liked Miranda but he didn’t like her to do such thing. Clegg never set her free until one day she got a terrible cold and she was dead.