num_pages: 656
description:  Jonathan Cape, 1966. First Edition [in later bookclub dustjacket]. Octavo, 617 pp. Pictorial jacket; publisher's original quarter purple cloth with gray textured cloth boards. Faint fading at board edges, under close inspection a light crease to spine, a couple of small spots of soiling at page edges. Better than VG+, very close to NF. Jacket - which is the World Books jacket, from their 1967 BCE - is also NF, showing very minor peripheral wear and a few words in ballpen on the inside front flap. Fowles' second - and some say finest - novel, one which expands and develops thematic traces started in The Collector and which stands on it own as a complex literary achievement of woven historical allusion, philosophical exploration and spiritual questioning by one of the few modern-day writers capable of such. L6
language: English
title: The Magus
titlecomplete: The Magus
characters: Maurice Conchis, Joe Harrison, Alison Kelly, Nicholas Urfe, John Leverrier, June Holmes, Julie Holmes, Sandy Mitford, John Briggs, Demetriades, Lily de Seitas, Joan Kemp
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, British Literature, Greece, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 57298
places: London, England, Greece
publisher: Jonathan Cape