The Magus

Paperback | 1 May 1997 | Edition Number 2

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A novel which explores the complexities of the human mind. On a remote Greek island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. Surreal threads weave ever tighter as reality and illusion intertwine in a bizarre psychological game.

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The Magus was Fowles's own first novel, but it was years in the making and The Collector was finished and published before the author was able to concentrate on this, one of his masterpieces. The book has now acquired cult status and rightly so. It concerns the young Nicholas Urfe, who is offered a teaching post on a Greek island, Phraxos. There he meets the magus of the title, a Prospero-like figure who lures him into an extraordinary psycho-drama that forces Nicholas to confront himself and his behaviour. It is a dazzling novel of mythic proportions; a fiction about fictions, and the nature of art and reality. (Kirkus UK)

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