Magus
  • Published: 4 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780099478355
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 720
  • RRP: $19.99

Magus

The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

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Paperback
8 Apr 2025
Paperback
4 Nov 2021
EBook
4 Jan 2024
EBook
1 Feb 2011
Audiobook
4 Jan 2025
Audiobook
1 Mar 2018
Paperback
31 Mar 1999
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Three of the John Fowles' most popular novels, rejacketed with a vibrant new modern design

WITH AN AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR

'A major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig... Mr Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits are on the bull's eye' Sunday Times

On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration of human complexities. By turns disturbing, thrilling and seductive, The Magus is a feast for the mind and the senses.
  • Published: 4 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780099478355
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 720
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

John Fowles

John Fowles was born in 1926. He won international recognition with The Collector, his first published title, in 1963. He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power, and this reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works: The Aristos, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa, and A Maggot. John Fowles died in Lyme Regis in 2005. Two volumes of his Journals have recently been published; the first in 2003, the second in 2006.

Also by John Fowles

Mantissa
The Journals
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Daniel Martin
The Journals Volume 1
The Tree
The Aristos
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Praise for Magus

A major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig... Mr Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits are on the bull's eye

Sunday Telegraph

A deliciously toothsome celebration of wanton story-telling

Sunday Times

A splendidly sustained piece of mystification

Financial Times

One of those that's best read as a teenager, but once read you'll never forget it

Katy Guest, Independent

Suspend disbelief and enjoy a master storyteller

Christie Hickman, Sunday Express

It is original and contemporary; it is intelligent. Most of all, it is great, good, lavish, eerie fun. Read it in one sitting if possible (late at night is best)--but read it. It is a marvelous, compelling novel, of a kind that doesn't come around very often

New York Times, 1966
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