The Magician (Unabridged)

Written by W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by Digital Voice Marcus G

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

In the cobbled streets of Paris, a love story takes a sinister turn. Arthur, a surgeon of unwavering logic, finds his world upended by the arrival of Oliver Haddo, a charismatic yet unsettling stranger. Haddo, shrouded in mysteries and whispers of magic, becomes fixated on Arthur's fiancée, Margaret. As his influence grows, Margaret's affections waver, leaving Arthur grappling with reason and the chilling possibility of the supernatural. Can love survive in the face of manipulation and dark secrets? "The Magician" is a chilling tale of deception, questioning the boundaries between reality and illusion, and leaving you breathless until the very last page.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Falcon Press
• Release date: Mar 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9798868693212

W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Born in Paris, he was orphaned as a boy and sent to live with an emotionally distant uncle. He struggled to fit in as a student at The King’s School in Canterbury and demanded his uncle send him to Heidelberg University, where he studied philosophy and literature. In Germany, he had his first affair with an older man and embarked on a career as a professional writer. After completing his degree, Maugham moved to London to begin medical school. There, he published Liza of Lambeth (1897), his debut novel. Emboldened by its popular and critical success, he dropped his pursuit of medicine to devote himself entirely to literature. Over his 65-year career, he experimented in form and genre with such works as Lady Frederick (1907), a play, The Magician (1908), an occult novel, and Of Human Bondage (1915). The latter, an autobiographical novel, earned Maugham a reputation as one of the twentieth century’s leading authors, and continues to be recognized as his masterpiece. Although married to Syrie Wellcome, Maugham considered himself both bisexual and homosexual at different points in his life. During and after the First World War, he worked for the British Secret Intelligence Service as a spy in Switzerland and Russia, writing of his experiences in Ashenden: Or the British Agent (1927), a novel that would inspire Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. At one point the highest-paid author in the world, Maugham led a remarkably eventful life without sacrificing his literary talent.