Author: John Fowles
Title: The Magus, a Revised Version
Description: London, Jonathan Cape, 1977 . Cloth. A signed copy of the revised edition of John Fowles's celebrated postmodern novel, reviewed by the Sunday Times as a 'deliciously toothsome celebration of wanton story-telling&apos. The first impression of the revised edition of Fowles's novel, published eleven years after the first edition. Flat signed by Fowles to the title pageIn the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Magus' is John Fowles's postmodern novel about Nicholas Urfe, a young man who is teaching English on a small Greek island and becomes embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster.Considered an example of metafiction, this was Fowles first written novel, but his third to be published.A lovely signed work by Fowles, the renowned British novelist of works positioned between modernism and postmodernism, best known for 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', 'A Maggot', and 'The Collector&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Minor bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Dust wrapper lightly sunned to back strip, with light spotting to reverse of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned to perimeters due to paper type, as is common with this edition. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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Title: The Magus, a Revised Version
Description: London, Jonathan Cape, 1977 . Cloth. A signed copy of the revised edition of John Fowles's celebrated postmodern novel, reviewed by the Sunday Times as a 'deliciously toothsome celebration of wanton story-telling&apos. The first impression of the revised edition of Fowles's novel, published eleven years after the first edition. Flat signed by Fowles to the title pageIn the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Magus' is John Fowles's postmodern novel about Nicholas Urfe, a young man who is teaching English on a small Greek island and becomes embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster.Considered an example of metafiction, this was Fowles first written novel, but his third to be published.A lovely signed work by Fowles, the renowned British novelist of works positioned between modernism and postmodernism, best known for 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', 'A Maggot', and 'The Collector&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Minor bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Dust wrapper lightly sunned to back strip, with light spotting to reverse of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned to perimeters due to paper type, as is common with this edition. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Keywords: fowles the collector the aristos the french lieutenant's woman the collector None
Price: GBP 895.00 = appr. US$ 1278.05 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 881F9
- Book number: 881F9
See more books from our catalog: Modern Fiction