An isolated and uneducated butterfly collector captures a female art student in the hope that she will come to love him. But she cannot feel anything but contem... » 

An isolated and uneducated butterfly collector captures a female art student in the hope that she will come to love him. But she cannot feel anything but contempt for his cold and calculated approach to all things natural. Described as an extraordinary tour de force Guardian this is Fowles first novel originally published in 1963. It has been out of print for some years. «