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Encyclopedia > The Ebony Tower

The Ebony Tower (1974) by John Fowles consists of 5 short novels with interlacing themes, built around a medieval myth: The Ebony Tower, Eliduc, Poor Koko, The Enigma and The Cloud.


Quotations from The Ebony Tower:

"Paint. Just paint. This is my advice. And leave the clever talk to the poor sods who canīt"
Henry Breasley in The Ebony Tower


" The princess calls, but there is no one, now, to hear her"
The Cloud


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


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