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A late work by the great master novelist John Fowles. In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a startling vision at...

Eraklik ja seltsimatu mees-liblikapüüdja röövib kunstitudengist neiu ja hoiab teda enda üksildases maamajas kinni kui oma kollektsiooni kõige kaunimat ja haruldasemat eksemplari. Romaanis käsitletud sündmustest räägitakse kahest erinevast vaatenurgast – minajutustaja Frederick Cleggi pilgu läbi nähtuna ja röövitu, Miranda Grey päevikukirjete kaudu. Clegg on üles kasvanud väikekodanlikus õhkkonnas, mis on teinud temast kalgi ja isikupäratu inimese. Psüühilisest hälbest ajendatuna viib ta ellu...

Fowlesi loomingus on korduvaks motiiviks kangelase konflikt eneseteostuse ning ühiskonnas eksisteerivate reeglite vahel. Tihti juhatab kangelast vabaduse poole keegi saladuslik tundmatu ning teetähiseks pole mitte keelud ja käsud, vaid üha uued mõistatused. Nii satub ka „Maagi” minategelane Nicholas Urfe ühel Kreeka saarel psühholoogilisse mängu, milles põimuvad tihedalt reaalsus ja illusioonid. Eessõnas Fowlesi peateoseks peetud „Maagile” on autor öelnud, et raamatu tähendus on just see...

Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a digraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.

On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration of human complexities. By turns disturbing, thrilling and seductive, The Magus is a feast for the mind and the senses.

On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the...