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John Fowles

by Peter J. Conradi

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Published by Methuen in London, New York .
Written in

    Subjects:
  • Fowles, John, 1926- -- Criticism and interpretation

  • Edition Notes

    Bibliography: p. 105-109.

    StatementPeter Conradi.
    SeriesContemporary writers
    Classifications
    LC ClassificationsPR6056.O85 Z63 1982
    The Physical Object
    Pagination109 p. ;
    Number of Pages109
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL3782403M
    ISBN 100416322506
    LC Control Number81022572

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    Jan 01,  · Buy a cheap copy of The Magus book by John Fowles. 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 Free shipping over $Cited by: John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis.

    A writer and his women ("his past futures, his future pasts")—and an attempt to discover "what had gone wrong not only with Daniel Martin, but his generation, age, century" This is Fowles' mammoth, clubfooted new novel, with all the autobiographical indulgences and psycho-philosophical longueurs that such a prospectus almost always guarantees&#;and more. John Fowles was born on March 31st, , in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. His father, Robert Fowles, was a soldier in the First World War before becoming a tobacconist and later marrying Gladys Richards, who gave birth to John soon after.


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