Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings

Wormholes - Essays and Occasional Writings (ISBN 0-8050-5867-2) is a book containing writings from four decades by the English author John Fowles. It was published in 1998.

Most of the contents are short, non-fiction pieces that had been written for various purposes since 1963, including forewords to other authors' books, and pieces written for science journals or other periodicals.

Works of John Fowles
Novels
  • The Collector (1963)
  • The Magus (1965, revised 1977)
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
  • The Ebony Tower (1974)
  • Daniel Martin (1977)
  • Mantissa (1982)
  • A Maggot (1985)
Non-fiction
  • The Aristos (1964)
  • The Tree (1979)
  • Wormholes (1998)
Film adaptations
  • The Collector
  • The Magus
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman

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