The Magus
/ John Fowles
- Boston, Massachusetts : Little, Brown and Company , c1965.
- 668 pp ; 17 cm
The Magus is the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching assignment on a remote Greek island. There his friendship with a local millionaire evolves into a deadly game, one in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas must fight for his sanity and his very survival.