FOWLES, John. [Michael Caine].
The Magus.
London: Jonathan Cape , 1966.
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"The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself": First Edition of The Magus; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery and Signed by John Fowles and Academy Award-Winning Actor Michael Caine
First edition of the author's most well-known work, basis for the 1968 cult film starring Michael Caine and Anthony Quinn. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed by John Fowles and by Academy Award-winning actor Michael Caine on pages bound in. Rare and desirable signed by Michael 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. In fine condition.
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 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, was listed at number 67 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
The Magus.
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