Quotes from book
The Ebony Tower

Name: The Ebony Tower
Author: John Fowles

The Ebony Tower by John Fowles is a collection of five novellas and short stories with interlacing themes, each built around a medieval myth: The Ebony Tower, Eliduc, Poor Koko, The Enigma and The Cloud.

“Paint. Just paint. This is my advice. And leave the clever talk to the poor sods who can't.”

John Fowles book The Ebony Tower

The Ebony Tower (1974)

“The princess calls, but there is no one, now, to hear her.”

John Fowles book The Ebony Tower

The Ebony Tower (1974)

“The tender pragmatisms of flesh have poetries no enigma - human or divine - can deminish or demean. Indeed, it can only cause them, and then walk out.”

John Fowles book The Ebony Tower

The Ebony Tower (1974)

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