The Magus, A Revised Version

John Fowles

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1977

About this Item

The revised edition of John Fowles's celebrated postmodern novel, reviewed by the Sunday Times as a 'deliciously toothsome celebration of wanton story-telling'. The first impression of the revised edition of Fowles's novel, published eleven years after the first edition.In the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.'The Magus' is John Fowles's postmodern novel about Nicholas Urfe, a young man who is teaching English on a small Greek island and becomes embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster.Considered an example of metafiction, this was Fowles first written novel, but his third to be published.A lovely work by Fowles, the renowned British novelist of works positioned between modernism and postmodernism, best known for 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', 'A Maggot', and 'The Collector'.With the stamp 'International Bookshop 25OCT1977' to the reverse of the dust wrapper back strip. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with a bump to the spine tail. Dust wrapper bright, with sunning to back strip. Head of rear wrap age toned. Minor amateur ink restorations to back strip head and tail, and faint stamp to reverse of back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned due to paper type, but clean. Near Fine. Seller Inventory # 880F46

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Magus, A Revised Version

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London

Publication Date: 1977

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: None

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed

Book Type: book