num_pages: 711
description: Modern Library 100 Best Novels. Nicholas Urfe, an evasive young Englishman, accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where his friendship with a reclusive, demonic millionaire lures him into "the godgame": an elaborate series of staged hallucinations, riddles, and psychological traps meant to test his concept of being and reality. This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by the author.
language: English
title: The Magus
titlecomplete: The Magus (Modern Library)
characters: John Briggs, John Leverrier, June Holmes, Sandy Mitford, Nicholas Urfe, Maurice Conchis, Joe Harrison, Alison Kelly, Demetriades, Joan Kemp, Lily de Seitas, Julie Holmes
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Greece, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 57310
places: Greece, London, England
publisher: Modern Library