The Magus
- By John Fowles
Full Description
The Magus is the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching assignment on a remote Greek island. There his friendship with a local millionaire evolves into a deadly game, one in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas must fight for his sanity and his very survival.
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Critical Praise
"Fast and frightening.... An emotional maelstrom of high intrigue."
Newsweek
"Great, good, lavish, eerie fun.... The Magus is a stunner.... It is at once a pyrotechnical extravaganza, a wild, hilarious charade, a dynamo of suspense and horror, a profoundly serious probing into the nature of moral consciousness, a dizzying, electrifying chase through the labyrinth of the soul..... Read it in one sitting if possible but read it."
Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York Times
"Mr. Fowles's narrative gift is genuine, his manipulation of suspense is of a high order."
Brian Moore, Washington Post
