FOWLES, John.

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The Magus. First UK edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the actor Terence Stamp, "Terry, best wishes, John Fowles. 19/1/1967". Stamp starred in the 1965 film adaptation of Fowles's novel The Collector. The US edition was published by Little, Brown a few months earlier, in January 1966. The stunning jacket design is by the highly acclaimed artist Tom Adams.The Magus was the first novel written by Fowles (albeit the third he published). A self-conscious homage to Shakespeare's The Tempest, the story charts the sinister tension between reality and fantasy in the experience of its protagonist.

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