The Magus

by John Fowles Narrated by Nicholas Boulton

Overview

John Fowles's The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, but even almost half a century after its first publication, it continues to create tension and concern, remaining the page-turner that it was when it was first released.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Brilliant and colossal....Impossible to stop reading."--New York Review of Books

"Great, good, lavish, eerie, fun....The Magus is a stunner....It is at once a pyrotechnical extravaganza, a wild, hilarious charade, a dynamo of suspense, a profoundly serious probing into the nature of moral consciousness, a dizzying, electrifying chase through the labyrinth of the soul... Read it in one sitting if possible--but read it."--Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York Times

"Sumptuous....An extraordinary literary feat."--J.D. Scott, New York Times Book Review

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169170214
Publisher:	Naxos Audiobooks
Publication date:	09/01/2012
Edition description:	Unabridged

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