CONTEMPORARY ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE - John Fowles (Leigh-on-Sea, 1926 - Lyme Regis, 2005) - A

John Fowles (Leigh-on-Sea, 1926 - Lyme Regis, 2005)3 typed letters signed; 1 typed letter signed on a postcard; 1 extract with autograph dedication of the text of the essay "The Falklands, and a Death Foretold" (Reprinted from The Georgia Review, Volume XXXVI, Number 4, Winter 1982, pp. 721-728) by the internationally acclaimed British novelist, whose books have been adapted into several films such as "The Collector" (1965) and "The French Lieutenant’s Woman" (1981).Three typed letters signed to Rolando Pieraccini, in which the author discusses the publication terms for the Eurographica edition of "The Enigma" (1987). "The Enigma" is one of the "three stories" in "The Ebony Tower", an experimental translation by Fowles of the Celtic romance by Marie de France Eliduc. All envelopes are included.3rd June, 1986. "...cannot help over the Three Stories. The collection from which you took them [The Ebony Tower, 1974] is something of an exception in my literary life, and I really have no shorter substitutes to offer...". 1 p., on the author’s letterhead.1 Oct 1986. Agreement to sign the "new" frontispieces of the edition. 1 p., on the author’s letterhead.29th October, 1986. About the contract’s approach: "I would really prefer it if you would settle the new contract with Jonathan Cape [London publishing firm], and please also use them as a mailing address during the coming months. The additional fee of $1000 is acceptable, and I really do not need more than six copies if the text is to be in Finnish". 1 p., on the author’s letterhead.Typed letter signed dated 29. I. 87. To Miss Harrison, an admirer: "I’m afraid that I will neither distribute nor send photographs of myself (...) I am not unsympathetic to your aim, but we much-studied writers do have a growing problem in finding time for what we were brought into this world to do - to write!". 1 p., on a postcard. Envelope included.Autograph dedication signed dated 24 June 1983 on the cover of the text The Falklands, and a Death Foretold – 8 pp. Rare extract of the essay on the Falklands’ war and Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) by Gabriel García Márquez first published in The Georgia Review.