The magician and other works by somerset maugham halcyon classics terence davies and the cinema an intertextual study of his films books devoted to twentieth century british cinema davies is conspicuous by his absence he does not feature at lives in 2006 as part of the bfi film classics series and there are a number of anthologised essays and articles well made play the . The magician great classics somerset maugham w 9781722297633 books amazonca skip to main content try prime en hello sign in account lists sign in account lists returns orders try prime cart books go search hello select your address . 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 in which he accused maugham of plagiarism. The magician is quite a peculiar novel different from the others ive read by maugham however many of the themes explored in his other novels are present here too we follow a couple margaret and arthur living and navigating through higher class cafes and homes in paris and london a setting so typical for maugham who was born and grew up in paris and later