简介: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.
Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley.
The Magician was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled A Fragment of Autobiography.
The novel inspired a 1926 Rex Ingram film of the same name, see: The Magician (1926 film).