The Magician - (Penguin Classics) by W Somerset Maugham (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Originally published: Great Britain: William Heinemann, 1908.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Maugham's enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attraction</b> <p> <i>The Magician</i> is one of Somerset Maugham's most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de siecle Paris, Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married. Everyone approves and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves--until the sinister and repulsive Oliver Haddo appears. <p/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Maugham tells his tale of the weird and the horrible with simple sincerity and a constant matching of the unhallowed practices with the clean, sweet things of common life that make its effect uncommonly impressive. --<i>The New York Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>W. Somerset Maugham</b> (1874-1965) lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He afterwards walked the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, <b>Liza of Lambeth</b> (1897), won him over to letters. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, <b>Of Human Bondage</b> (1915), and with <b>The Moon and Sixpence</b> (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured. <p/>His position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. His first play, <b>A Man of Honour</b> (1903), was followed by a procession of successes just before and after the First World War. (At one point only Bernard Shaw had more plays running at the same time in London.) His theatre career ended with <b>Sheppey</b> (1933). His fame as a short-story writer began with <b>The Trembling of a Leaf</b>, sub-titled <b>Little Stories of the South Sea Islands</b>, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. <p/>W. Somerset Maugham's general books are fewer in number. They include travel books, such as <b>On a Chinese Screen</b> (1922) and <b>Don Fernando</b> (1935), essays, criticism, and the self-revealing <b>The Summing Up</b> (1938) and <b>A Writer's Notebook</b> (1949). He became a Companion of Honour in 1954. <p/><b>Robert Calder</b> is professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan.</p>
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