John Фаулз - one of the most prominent and deservedly popular British writers of the XX century, modern classic of main caliber, author of the world best sellers "Collector" and "Tower from an ebony", "Daniel Martin" and "Pupa". The books of him divided the multimillion drawing, were translated on a few ten of languages and successfully filmed. However one of main visiting-cards of Фаулзу "Mistress serves as legally French lieutenant". Enticing a reader the piquant love plot of a story, combining realistic tradition with the elements of detective and mysticism, Фаулз enters into a polemic with fashionable pseudovictorian novels.