This novel features two alternate endings, one featuring a lasting union between the central couple, the other concerning their separation.
This novel features two alternate endings, one featuring a lasting union between the central couple, the other concerning their separation. Despite his engagement to Ernestina Freeman, the young Victorian paleontologist Charles Smithson becomes infatuated with a solitary female figure he sees standing on the beach staring out to sea. Despite rumors of her affair with a French sailor, Smithson soon falls in love with the enigmatic, ostracized governess Sarah Woodruff. FTP, what is this novel, probably the best-known work by John Fowles?
This novel features two alternate endings, one featuring a lasting union between the central couple, the other concerning their separation.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman