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        The Magus


        setting

        Isle of Greece

        time

        1950s

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1965

        page count

        656

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Nichols, Alison, Julie, Rose, Maurice

        Rip's impressions

        This is a fast read (most of it), but many scenes are annoyingly repetitious; the denouement is much too long, but the ending itself is orginal and poignant, beautiful, and very well written.

        first line

        I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.

        last lines

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