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John Fowles’s chilling debut novel The Collector (1963) explores obsession, beauty, and power. Frederick Clegg, a lonely clerk who collects butterflies, wins the lottery and kidnaps Miranda, a vibrant art student, believing that she’ll eventually learn to love him. Held captive in his secluded countryside house, Miranda becomes his “first specimen,” sparking a tense psychological battle. In this 368-page Ukrainian hardcover translation by Liubov Pylaieva (BookChef, 2021), Fowles traps readers in escalating dread and moral complexity—investigating the dark links between beauty and monstrosity, desire and control