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The magus by john fowles the 485th greatest fiction book. As reality and illusion intertwine, urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games. It was the first viable novel he began writing, but was published for the first time in 1966, and then in a revised version in 1977. Dec 24, 2015 the collector by john fowles in epub, fb2, fb3 download e book. The magus was the first novel john fowles wrote, but his third to be published, after the collector 1963 and the aristos 1964. The magus ebook by john fowles 9780316230230 rakuten kobo.
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