The Magician - W. Somerset Maugham - Books - Aegypan - 9781598181654 - August 1, 2005
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The Magician

W. Somerset Maugham

The Magician

"Though Aleister Crowley served as the model for Oliver Haddo, it is by no means a portrait of him. I made my character more striking in appearance, more sinister and more ruthless than Crowley ever was. I gave him magical powers that Crowley, though he claimed them, certainly never possessed. Crowley, however, recognized himself in the creature of my invention, for such it was, and wrote a full-page review of the novel in Vanity Fair, which he signed 'Oliver Haddo.' I did not read it, and wish now that I had. I daresay it was a pretty piece of vituperation, but probably, like his poems, intolerably verbose." -- W. Somerset Maugham

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released August 1, 2005
ISBN13 9781598181654
Publishers Aegypan
Pages 220
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 16 mm   ·   462 g
Language English  

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