📖 The Ebony Tower

A collection of novellas - perfect examples of Fowles's rich, dazzling, masterly style. The Ebony Tower is a series of five novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In the title story, a journalist visiting a celebrated but reclusive painter is intrigued by the elderly artist's relationship with two beautiful young women. John Fowles reputation as a master storyteller was further advanced by this collection, which echoed themes and preoccupations from his other books.