《收藏家》是英国作家约翰·福尔斯的第一本小说,作品于1963年一经出版就受到了好评,并且曾在英美等国的畅销书排行榜中位列榜首,小说的成功使福尔斯在英国文坛占有了一席之地,他被誉为讲故事的大师。福尔斯的作品颇受欧美文学评论界的关注,评论界称他为“战后英国最有才华、最严肃的小说家”。 The collector was the first novel of British writer John Fowles, whose work was well received in 1963 and published in the bestseller list in Britain, the United States and other countries. The success of the novel blessing Als has a place in the British literary world, he was hailed as the master of storytelling. Fowles’s work is quite popular with the European and American literary critics who call him “the most talented and most serious novelist in Britain after the war.”