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The Magus is a literary suspense novel by John Robert Fowles. First published in , the book follows a young man who befriends a dangerous and alluring millionaire when he accepts a teaching position on a remote island. The Magus is one of Fowles’s most popular novels, and .  · John Fowles didn't regard The Magus as his greatest novel. The first he wrote but the second to be published (in ), it seemed to succeed in spite of its creator, who mused: "I have long Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. 53, ratings3, reviews. 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 /5(K).

THE MAGUS By John Fowles. ohn Fowles's first novel, "The Collector," was a horror tale brightened by intelligence and insight and dulled by an intellectually rigid geometric scheme. The root of the tale's horror lay not in the plot situation of the novel--a madman kidnaps a girl and holds her prisoner in his basement--but in the eventual. ― John Fowles, The Magus. 30 likes. Like "We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember that you have paid a price: that of a world rich in mystery and delicate emotion. It is not only species. The Magus is a literary suspense novel by John Robert Fowles. First published in , the book follows a young man who befriends a dangerous and alluring millionaire when he accepts a teaching position on a remote island. The Magus is one of Fowles's most popular novels, and critics believe it is his smartest work.

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 ( - ) won international recognition with his first published novel, The Collector (). The Magus () is a postmodern novel by British author John Fowles, telling the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate who is teaching English on a small Greek island. Urfe becomes embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster, which become increasingly dark and serious. First published in by British author John Fowles, The Magus tells the tale of Nicholas Urfe, a young Oxford graduate who, after a short-lived relationship with an Australian called Alison, takes a job teaching at a private boys’ school on a beautiful Greek Island, Phraxos.