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As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with overpowering imagery in a spellbinding exploration of human complexities. By turns disturbing, thrilling and seductive, The Magus is a feast for the mind and senses.  \nAbout the Author  \nJohn Fowles won international recognition with The Collector, his first published title, in 1963. He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power, and this reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works: The Aristos, The Magus, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa andA Maggot. John Fowles died in 2005.  \nAlso by John Fowles  \nThe Collector  \nThe Aristos  \nThe French Lieutenant’s Woman The Ebony Tower Daniel Martin Mantissa A Maggot Non-fiction The Aristos  \nThe Tree The Journals: Volume 1  \nThe Journals: Volume 2  \nForeword  \nThough this is not, in any major thematic or narrative sense, a fresh version of The Magus, it is rather more than a stylistic revision. A number of scenes have been largely rewritten, and one or two new ones invented. I have taken this somewhat unusual course not least because – if letters are any test – the book has aroused more interest than anything else I have written. I have long learnt to accept that the fiction that professionally always pleased me least (a dissatisfaction strongly endorsed by many of its original reviewers) persists in attracting a majority of my readers most.  \nThe story appeared in 1965, after two other books, but in every way except that of mere publishing date, it is a first novel. I began writing it in the early 1950s, and both narrative and mood went through countless transformations. In its original form there was a clear supernatural element – an attempt at something along the lines of Henry James’s masterpiece, The Turn of the Screw. But I had no coherent idea at all of where I was going, in life as in the book. A more objective side of me did not then believe I should ever become a publishable writer; a subjective one could not abandon the myth it was trying, clumsily and laboriously, to bring into the world; and my strongest memory is of constantly having to abandon drafts because of an inability to describe what I wanted. Both technique and that bizarre face of the imagination that seems to be more like a failure to remember the already existent than what it really is – a failure to evoke thenon-existent – kept me miserably aground. Yet when the success of The Collector in 1963 gave me some literary confidence, it was this endlessly tortured and recast cripple that demanded precedence over var","cbCainZAUrSkNBg4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainZAUrSkNBg4","pdf",3925703,694,"English","# Contents\n## About the Book\n## About the Author\n## Foreword\n## Part 1\n## Chapter 1\n## Chapter 2\n## Chapter 3\n## Chapter 4\n## Chapter 5\n## Chapter 6\n## Chapter 7\n## Chapter 8\n## Chapter 9\n## Part 2\n## Chapter 10\n## Chapter 11\n## Chapter 12\n## Chapter 13\n## Chapter 14\n## Chapter 15\n## Chapter 16\n## Chapter 17\n## Chapter 18\n## Chapter 19\n## Chapter 20\n## Chapter 21\n## Chapter 22\n## Chapter 23\n## Chapter 24\n## Chapter 25\n## Chapter 26\n## Chapter 27\n## Chapter 28\n## Chapter 29\n## Chapter 30\n## Chapter 31\n## Chapter 32\n## Chapter 33\n## Chapter 34\n## Chapter 35\n## Chapter 36\n## Chapter 37\n## Chapter 38\n## Chapter 39\n## Chapter 40\n## Chapter 41\n## Chapter 42\n## Chapter 43\n## Chapter 44\n## Chapter 45\n## Chapter 46\n## Chapter 47\n## Chapter 48\n## Chapter 49\n## Chapter 50\n## Chapter 51\n## Chapter 52\n## Chapter 53\n## Chapter 54\n## Chapter 55\n## Chapter 56\n## Chapter 57\n## Chapter 58\n## Chapter 59\n## Chapter 60\n## Chapter 61\n## Chapter 62\n## Chapter 63\n## Chapter 64\n## Chapter 65\n## Chapter 66\n## Chapter 67","[{\"question\":\"What is the central premise of The Magus?\",\"answer\":\"Nicholas Urfe, on a remote Greek island, is pulled into the schemes of a master trickster. 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