Unable to make any normal contact, Clegg decides to add her to his "collection" of pretty, preserved objects, in the hope that if he keeps her captive long enough, she will grow to love him.Īfter careful preparations, he kidnaps Miranda by drugging her with chloroform and locks her up in the cellar of his house. He feels lonely, however, and wants to be with Miranda. He quits his job and buys an isolated house in Sussex near Lewes. One day, he wins a large prize in the football pools. He admires her from a distance but is unable to make any contact with her because he is socially underdeveloped. The first part of the novel tells the story from his point of view.Ĭlegg is obsessed with Miranda Grey, a middle-class art student at the Slade School of Fine Art. The novel is about a lonely young man, Frederick Clegg, who works as a clerk in a city hall and collects butterflies in his spare time. It was adapted into an Academy Award–nominated feature film of the same name in 1965 starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar. The portion of the novel told from Miranda's perspective is presented in epistolary form.įowles wrote the novel between November 1960 and March 1962.
Divided in two sections, the novel contains both the perspective of the captor, Frederick, and that of Miranda, the captive. Its plot follows a lonely young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhouse. The Collector is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut.
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