Sunday, March 25, 2012
The Magician
This 1908 novel by Somerset Maugham was his last work published before the much more ambitious and popular Of Human Bondage. It is melodramatic, filled with people talking "hoarsely" and "in agony" as they encounter the diabolical Oliver Haddo, a fictional stand-in for notorious occultist Aleister Crowley. It is slightly overheated but reliably entertaining.
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