num_pages: 656
description: 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 millionaire. The friendship soon evolves into a deadly game, in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas finds that he must fight not only for his sanity but for his very survival.
language: English
title: The Magus
titlecomplete: The Magus
characters: Joan Kemp, Maurice Conchis, Demetriades, Alison Kelly, Joe Harrison, Julie Holmes, John Leverrier, Sandy Mitford, Nicholas Urfe, John Briggs, Lily de Seitas, June Holmes
genres: Greece, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Mystery, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 57285
places: London, England, Greece
publisher: Back Bay Books