SOURCE: "The Ebony Tower: Variations on the Mythic Theme," in her The Fiction of John Fowles: A Myth for Our Time, The Penkevill Publishing Company, 1988, pp. 77-99.
In the essay below, Barnum offers a comprehensive overview of Fowles 's The Ebony Tower, noting similarities between the stories, particularly the recurring theme of missed opportunities, as well as similarities between Fowles's short fiction and his novels.
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