About this book
This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles's best-loved and bestselling novels and has contributed significantly to his international reputation as a writer of the first degree. At the center of The Magus is Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where he befriends a local millionaire. The friendship soon evolves into a deadly game, in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas finds that he must fight not only for his sanity but for his very survival. (via Goodreads)
First line
I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents,both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.
First Edition Identification
Little, Brown and Company published the First US Edition, First Printing in Boston, 1965. Jonathan Cape published the First UK Edition, First Printing in London, 1966.
Details
- Title The Magus
- Author John Fowles
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 656
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Little Brown and Company, Boston
- Date April 1978
- ISBN 9780316290920 / 0316290920
- Weight 2.5 lbs (1.13 kg)
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Islands - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 77017343
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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