Opens the complex Victorian world of the 1860s and 1870s to the perspective of time and imagination and allows us to see the image of modern man reflected in the past. The technique employed enables the author to enter the story from the vantage point of the present and, looking back a hundred years, make first person commentaries on various salient aspects of the Victorian scene ... politics, religion, science, economic conditions, social customs, sexual mores and moral attitudes.

(Key Words: John Fowles, Victorian Era, Love, Time, Novels, Fiction).