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London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First Edition [in later bookclub dustjacket]. Octavo, 617 pp. Pictorial jacket; publisher's original quarter purple cloth with gray textured cloth boards. Faint fading at board edges, under close inspection a light crease to spine, a couple of small spots of soiling at page edges. Better than VG+, very close to NF. Jacket - which is the World Books jacket, from their 1967 BCE - is also NF, showing very minor peripheral wear and a few words in ballpen on the inside front flap. Fowles' second - and some say finest - novel, one which expands and develops thematic traces started in The Collector and which stands on it own as a complex literary achievement of woven historical allusion, philosophical exploration and spiritual questioning by one of the few modern-day writers capable of such. L6
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"A man trapped in a millionare's deadly game of political and sexual betrayal.
Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island where his friendship with the owner of the islands most magnificent estate leads him into a nightmare. As reality and fantasy are deliberately confused by staged deaths, erotic encounters, and terrifying violence, Urfe becomes a desperate man fighting for his sanity and his life. A work rich with symbols, conundrums and labrinthine twists of event, The Magus is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining, a work that ranks with the best novels of modern times.
About the Author
John Fowles (1926 - 2005) won international recognition with his first published novel, The Collector (1963). His subsequent works include The Magus (1966), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), Daniel Martin (1977), and others.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Rubber stamp on the front fly: "Signed for a member of the New Fiction Society" and Signed by Fowles beneath the stamp. Seller Inventory # 593391
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