John Фаулз - one of the most (and deservedly popular) British writers of distinction of the twentieth century, a modern classic of main caliber, author of the world best sellers, is "Collector" and "Magus", "Mistress of the French lieutenant" and "Tower from an ebony"."Daniel Martin" is the British "garden of going away paths", book, that Фаулз named the "example of unusual philosophy being beyond narrow-minded understanding" and simultaneously by a "attempt to grasp, which it is - to be an englishman". A hero of this novel is a former dramatist, now the successful Hollywood scenario writer - goes to England to visit the diseased friend. Appearing in the company of people well knowing him before, he forces finally to understand with the secrets hidden in his past, and, producing the radical overvalue of values, to find itself.