Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, the author set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. In the world he posited of constant and chaotic flux the supreme good was the Aristos.

This final volume of John Fowles' journals sees him leave London to live in a remote house on the Dorset coast near Lyme Regis. It reveals the often reluctant celebrity behind his outward success and marks a writer's continuing quest for wisdom and self-understanding.

"For years I have carried this book...with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance."

--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"The Tree is the fullest and finest exploration I've ever read of how the useless delights to be discovered in nature can ripen into the practice of art."

--Lewis Hyde, author of The Gift

"The most original argument for wilderness preservation I have encountered."
--Washington Post

Finally back in print, here is...

The Great War is over. It is the summer of 1920, in rural France. By a dusty road, a girl is sitting under the shade of an apple tree. She sees someone walking towards her. He is a young man, just back from fighting in Syria. He joins her under the tree, and a tragic love story begins.
Often compared to Chekhov, and much admired by Harold Pinter, Jean-Jacques Bernard creates a unique emotional landscape of beauty and longing, desire and disappointment.
Martine was written in 1922 and John Fowles wrote this translation for a revival at the National Theatre in 1985.