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Jennifer Juniper asked this question about The Magus:
Has anyone here read the original version and the revised edition? I have heard the original version is superior but I only heard that after buying the later edition and I decided to sally forth with it. I have a little less than 200 pages left. Without spoiling it, can anyone give opinions on which version you feel is better and why? What is the difference between the two?
KonaKeoki I read the original back in 1969, shortly after the movie came out. While I don't remember all the differences, it seemed to me that he did expand a b…moreI read the original back in 1969, shortly after the movie came out. While I don't remember all the differences, it seemed to me that he did expand a bit on the ending, making it ever so slightly clearer as to his predicted/preferred outcome. What was a bit amusing was that in his 1977 or so preface, he talked about being more sexually explicit in the revision, which today would be seen as really quite tame by any yardstick of explicitness used today.(less)
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The Magus
by John Fowles
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