FIRST EDITION, text block clean, publishers brown cloth, green dust jacket, a little rubbed along fold lines, 8vo, London, Jonathan Cape, 1977 Written after an eight year break from fiction, Daniel Martin is unlike any of Fowles earlier work. Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin follows a Hollywood screenwriter who returns to England to visit a university friend who is dying. Fowles suggests the work is “intended as a defence and illustration of an unfashionable philosophy, humanism, and also as an exploration of what it is to be English”.