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Existential Insights and Philosophical Wisdom in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman: A Critical Examination of the Search for Meaning in Postmodern Literature Cover

Existential Insights and Philosophical Wisdom in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman: A Critical Examination of the Search for Meaning in Postmodern Literature

By: Furong Huang,  Xin Xin and  Chang Yao  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2025-0004 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0428 | Journal ISSN: 1584-3734
Language: English
Page range: 27 - 35
Published on: Dec 31, 2025
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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