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The Magician : Together with a Fragment of Autobiography

The Magician : Together with a Fragment of Autobiography Paperback - 1992

by W. Somerset Maugham

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Penguin Publishing Group, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Magician : Together with a Fragment of Autobiography
  • Author W. Somerset Maugham
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 199
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
  • Date 1992
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G014018595XI4N00
  • ISBN 9780140185959 / 014018595X
  • Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.12 x 0.57 in (19.81 x 13.00 x 1.45 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Man-woman relationships, Authors, English - 20th century - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 73414062
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century masterSet in the bohemian cafe society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, Maugham's exploration of hypnotism and the occult was inspired by the sinister black magician Aleister Crowley. At the start of this compulsive gothic horror story, Arthur and his beautiful, innocent fiancee Margaret look forward to an idyllic life together, until they encounter the mesmerising and repulsive Oliver Haddo...

From the publisher

W. Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and 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, Liza of Lambeth (1897), won him over to letters. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, Of Human Bondage (1915), and with The Moon and Sixpence (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured.

His position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. His first play, A Man of Honour (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 Sheppey (1933).

His fame as a short-story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, sub-titled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections.

W. Somerset Maugham's general books are fewer in number. They include travel books, such as On a Chinese Screen (1922) and Don Fernando (1935), essays, criticism, and the self-revealing The Summing Up (1938) and A Writer's Notebook (1949).

W. Somerset Maugham became a Companion of Honour in 1954. He died in 1965.

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ARTHUR BURDON and Dr Porhoet walked in silence.

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