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The Magus

John Fowles

Start date: August 1, 2022

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May 02, 2019 Dan | The Ancient Reader rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: adventure-suspense-thriller

"But why the colossal performance just to tell one miserable moral bankrupt what he is?"

And why 600+ pages of well-written crap to tell a story with no real purpose or conclusion? ...more

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Oct 02, 2008 Laura rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-fiction, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, greece, british-literature, read-2013, mtbr-challenge-2013

Another fabulous book written by John Fowles.

This is the story of Nicholas Urfe, an English teacher who accepted a job teaching in a private boy's school in the Greek Island of Phraxos.

By exploring the island during his spare time, he discovers a remote villa owned by Conchis, the magician, the Magus of this story.

His life will change forever after their first meeting. The story has hints of surreal threads with a plenty of psychological game among the main characters.

One you start to read this ...more

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