The Magus.

FOWLES, John.

Item Number: 4600

London: Jonathan Cape, 1966.

First edition of the author’s most well-known work. Octavo. Signed by John Fowles on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Jacket painting by Tom Adams. A superior example.

The Magus was published by in the United Kingdom in 1966 and in the United States by Little, Brown and Company the same year. An instant success, the Sunday Telegraph called it 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 Cain, 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). The Magus was named by Modern Library 100 Best Novels in 1999, and in 2003, the novel was listed at number 67 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.