John Fowles

Broschiertes Buch

The Magus

Beschreibung

Read John Fowlesâ s feisty, clever, cunning and compelling novel with an unusual twist. On a remote Greek island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration of human complexities.

Autor

John Fowles was born in 1926. He 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, and A Maggot. John Fowles died in Lyme Regis in 2005. Two volumes of his Journals have recently been published; the first in 2003, the second in 2006.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 743378
• Rev. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 130mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780099478355
• ISBN-10: 0099478358
• Artikelnr.: 21381309

Rezensionen

A major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig... Mr Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits are on the bull's eye Sunday Telegraph

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