One of this author's protagonists breaks his word by refusing to take cyanide when a dice comes up as six and is told the story of a blind madman named Henrik Nygaard.
One of this author's protagonists breaks his word by refusing to take cyanide when a dice comes up as six and is told the story of a blind madman named Henrik Nygaard. One novel by this author ends with Rebecca Hocknell giving birth to Shaker founder Ann Lee and centers on the disappearance of "Mr. Bartholomew." In another of his novels, an amnesiac novelist named Miles Green has sex with the muse Erato in his hospital bed. This author created Maurice Conchis, an aristocrat who draws (*) Nicholas Urfe into a "godgame" on the island of Phraxos. In another work by this author of Mantissa and A Maggot, an amateur paleontologist named Charles Smithson falls in love with the title character, Sarah Woodruff. For 10 points, name this postmodernist British author of The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman.
One of this author's protagonists breaks his word by refusing to take cyanide when a dice comes up as six and is told the story of a blind madman named Henrik Nygaard.
John Fowles