The Magician - William Somerset Maugham

The Magician

By William Somerset Maugham

  • Release Date: 2010-01-01
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature

Description

The Magician is an early W. Somerset Maugham novel, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.