The Magician
W., Somerset Maugham
"Though Aleister Crowley served, as I have said, as the model for Oliver Haddo, it is by no means a portrait of him. I made my character more striking in appearance, more sinister and more ruthless than Crowley ever was. I gave him magical powers that Crowley, though he claimed them, certainly never possessed. Crowley, however, recognized himself in the creature of my invention, for such it was, and wrote a full-page review of the novel in Vanity Fair, which he signed 'Oliver Haddo.' I did not read it, and wish now that I had. I daresay it was a pretty piece of vituperation, but probably, like his poems, intolerably verbose." -- W. Somerset Maugham
श्रेणियाँ:
साल:
2006
प्रकाशन:
Aegypan
भाषा:
english
पृष्ठ:
131
ISBN 10:
1598188321
फ़ाइल:
PDF, 891 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2006