The Magician (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781438519036)

Somerset Maugham was a British novelist, short story writer and playwright. He was born in 1874 in Paris. During the 1930's his popularity soared and he became the highest paid author of his era. Maugham's father was a British lawyer working for the embassy in Paris. In France anyone born on French soil must serve in the army. To avoid this Maugham was born at the embassy, which was technically on British soil. After five years in medical school Maugham began a successful writing career. While Maugham worked in midwifery training in a London slum during medical school he learned about the working classes. In The Magician the sinister and repulsive Oliver Haddo gradually brings a happily engaged young English girl under his hypnotic spell, a spell from which the efforts of her fiancé and friends cannot save her. In the 1908 edition of the magazine Vanity Fair Aleister Crowley wrote a critique of The Magician, accusing Maugham of plagiarism. Crowley accuses Maugham of having plagiarized several books in writing The Magician.

Author: Somerset Maugham
ISBN-10: 1438519036
ISBN-13: 9781438519036
Publisher: Book Jungle
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2009
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.42d