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Behind Closed Doors
B. A. Paris
2016
The Collector
John Fowles · 1963
305 pages
A lonely young clerk who collects butterflies wins money and buys a country house, where he keeps the art student he has admired from afar as his prisoner. Told by both captor and captive, the novel traces the strange, uneasy months they spend together.
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Unreliable Narrator, Psychological Thriller, Creeping Dread, Villain Protagonist
Content warnings: abuse
