The Magician

Author(s): W. Somerset Maugham

Genre(s): Published 1900 Onward

Narrators: Delmar H Dolbier

Number of Chapters: 17

Length: 7 hours and 57 minutes

Language: English

The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, 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. Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley. The novel was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled A Fragment of Autobiography. (Wikipedia)