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Multiple Endings in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman A masterful postmodern plot set in the repressive backdrop of the victorian era is what a reader will get in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman. The convoluted contrivance is amply justified by introduction of existentialism and a truly inventive multiple endings by which the author……

The novel begins with two of our main characters walking on a famous beach. One is Charles Smithson, a wealthy man from London with an interest in paleontology. The other is Ernestina Freeman, wealthy as well, and a well-regarded socialite. The two are engaged to be married, and spending time together in the city of…