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In catalogues this is often put as first edition published in 1908, which is not true, as can be verified by the other books listed as by the same author, including Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), and The Trembling of a…

Maugham revised the US edition of The Magician, the textual difference doesn't appear in other editions.

This must be the first book with which Maugham got himself into trouble. Aleister Crowley, the model of the infamous Oliver Haddo, was upset when he found himself portrayed so realistically in the novel. Though initially Maugham denied it, in a later…