FOWLES, John. [Michael Caine].
The Magus.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
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"The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself": First Edition of The Magus; Signed by Academy Award-Winning Actor Michael Caine
First American edition, preceding the British edition by one year of the author's most well-known work, basis for the 1968 cult film starring Michael Caine and Anthony Quinn. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Academy Award-winning actor Michael Caine on the front free endpaper. Caine, who took the lead role of Nicholas Urfe in the 1968 screen adaptation directed by Guy Green, with a screenplay Fowles adapted from his own novel. The pairing of the novel with Caine's signature connects Fowles's dense metafictional narrative to its cinematic afterlife. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate of famed collector Rolland Comstock. Jacket painting by Tom Adams. Housed in a custom half morocco case. Rare and desirable signed.
The Sunday Telegraph called The Magus 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'." The Magus was quickly adapted into film starring Michael Caine, a "deliciously toothsome celebration of wanton story-telling... Before one quite realises what is happenings, one finds oneself no less avid for meanings and no less starving amid a plethora of clues than is Nicholas himself" (Sunday Times). It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century, and in 2003, and was listed at number 67 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
The Magus.
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