Title: The Magus
First published: 1965
Description: A startlingly original novel about a young English graduate who takes a position as a teacher at a private school on a small Greek island. Bored and lonely he spends his free hours wandering alone until he meets a wealthy and mysterious neighbour. Soon he finds himself a victim of this man’s increasingly bizarre psychological games and obsessed with a young woman who may or may not be a willing participant in these games.
Subjects: British, English Psychological fiction, Fiction, Greece, Islands, Travel, Fiction, psychological, Teachers, fiction, Greece, fiction, Fiction, general, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Places: Greece
Time periods: 1960s