FOWLES, J.: Magus (The) (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Fowles, John, 1926-2005, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2012.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

Part 1: Chapter 1 ( 06 min., 44 sec. )

At least, along with a group of fellow odd men out at Magdalen... ( 05 min., 54 sec. )

Chapter 2 ( 04 min., 29 sec. )

Chapter 3 ( 08 min., 02 sec. )

When I came back, she was standing with a glass of Scotch in her hand. ( 05 min., 52 sec. )

Alison knelt beside me. ( 05 min., 40 sec. )

Chapter 4 ( 07 min., 02 sec. )

For days, afraid of Maggie... ( 07 min., 30 sec. )

I couldn't see her face. ( 06 min., 46 sec. )

One day she said, 'I've got to go for my interview tomorrow.' ( 07 min., 25 sec. )

Chapter 5 ( 04 min., 36 sec. )

'I waited hours for you.' ( 04 min., 35 sec. )

The next morning, my last but two... ( 06 min., 34 sec. )

Chapter 6 ( 07 min., 13 sec. )

Chapter 7 ( 06 min., 43 sec. )

This lack of open water meant also that there were no wild animals... ( 06 min., 32 sec. )

Another letter came from her the next day. ( 06 min., 44 sec. )

Chapter 8 ( 07 min., 48 sec. )

One kind of person is engaged in society without realising it... ( 06 min., 36 sec. )

The day before term ended I felt the balance tip. ( 06 min., 25 sec. )

Chapter 9 ( 03 min., 21 sec. )

Part 2: Chapter 10 ( 08 min., 05 sec. )

The sun beat down on my back. ( 05 min., 18 sec. )

Chapter 11 ( 03 min., 17 sec. )

The leading estiatoras of the village... ( 08 min., 34 sec. )

Chapter 12 ( 06 min., 47 sec. )

Chapter 13 ( 06 min., 30 sec. )

I bit into my first kourabie, and gave an appreciative nod. ( 06 min., 58 sec. )

As I walked behind him, I said... ( 06 min., 32 sec. )

His head turned on me with a snakelike swiftness... ( 06 min., 53 sec. )

Chapter 14 ( 06 min., 28 sec. )

Chapter 15 ( 06 min., 06 sec. )

'Do you like this?' ( 08 min., 09 sec. )

He picked up a book and slapped the dust off it. ( 05 min., 52 sec. )

He sat against the parapet with his back to the view. ( 06 min., 18 sec. )

Chapter 16 ( 05 min., 26 sec. )

Chapter 17 ( 07 min., 29 sec. )

I swilled the last of the ouzo round in my glass. ( 06 min., 59 sec. )

'I came to Phraxos looking for a house to rent.' ( 08 min., 33 sec. )

Chapter 18 ( 07 min., 06 sec. )

'You see the child I was.' ( 07 min., 06 sec. )

'No obstacles except those of propriety...' ( 08 min., 03 sec. )

'I felt like a small boy beside her.' ( 06 min., 34 sec. )

Chapter 19 ( 06 min., 20 sec. )

'The madness of it, Nicholas.' ( 06 min., 09 sec. )

He stood up. ( 07 min., 23 sec. )

Chapter 20 ( 07 min. )

'I stayed in that crater all night.' ( 06 min., 45 sec. )

Chapter 21 ( 07 min., 43 sec. )

Chapter 22 ( 06 min., 05 sec. )

We remained staring at each other. ( 06 min., 27 sec. )

Chapter 23 ( 06 min., 20 sec. )

I looked around again, towards the house. ( 05 min., 42 sec. )

He had already had his own... ( 05 min., 52 sec. )

I was silent. ( 05 min., 46 sec. )

Chapter 24 ( 05 min., 54 sec. )

He stopped speaking for a moment... ( 06 min., 14 sec. )

'But there was so much misunderstanding between us.' ( 07 min., 35 sec. )

Chapter 25 ( 06 min., 04 sec. )

I went swiftly down the hall to the front door. ( 04 min., 30 sec. )

Chapter 26 ( 06 min., 08 sec. )

'He's asked me over next week again.' ( 08 min., 16 sec. )

Chapter 27 ( 06 min., 20 sec. )

At last it began to seem plain. ( 07 min., 24 sec. )

She had bare shoulders and arms. ( 06 min., 49 sec. )

Chapter 28 ( 05 min., 50 sec. )

She went and stood against the parapet at the far end of the terrace... ( 05 min., 30 sec. )

Chapter 29 ( 06 min., 37 sec. )

'Constantly, during that first visit, I was shocked...' ( 06 min., 52 sec. )

'He was the most abnormal man I had ever met.' ( 06 min., 01 sec. )

I went to the parapet that faced East. ( 07 min., 16 sec. )

I looked back at Conchis. ( 06 min., 48 sec. )

'Very well. Let us have a little more brandy first.' ( 07 min., 28 sec. )

Chapter 30 ( 07 min., 08 sec. )

I had never had a telepathic experience in my life... ( 03 min., 27 sec. )

Chapter 31 ( 06 min., 15 sec. )

'Give me your hand.' ( 06 min. )

I thought for one mad moment that he had crept up behind us. ( 07 min., 57 sec. )

It was a wild, dislocating, disactualising, shock. ( 07 min., 14 sec. )

Chapter 32 ( 04 min., 41 sec. )

Chapter 33 ( 05 min., 54 sec. )

She threw me a veiled look, then stared ahead again. ( 04 min., 38 sec. )

'I haven't been very happy on Phraxos.' ( 04 min., 31 sec. )

Chapter 34 ( 07 min., 32 sec. )

'When shall I see you again?' ( 08 min., 20 sec. )

Chapter 35 ( 05 min., 41 sec. )

He gave me a piercing look I was meant to believe... ( 06 min., 20 sec. )

I had the now familiar feeling that came in conversations at Bourani. ( 06 min., 26 sec. )

I remained staring at the edge of the tablecloth. ( 05 min., 55 sec. )

Chapter 36 ( 06 min., 33 sec. )

I began to stare at the star. ( 05 min., 55 sec. )

At some point it began imperceptibly to change. ( 06 min., 54 sec. )

Chapter 37 ( 06 min., 53 sec. )

I was glad, with a simplicity that recalled earliest adolescence. ( 05 min., 25 sec. )

Chapter 38 ( 06 min., 30 sec. )

I remembered Lily's prophecy... ( 06 min., 35 sec. )

There was a long silence. ( 06 min., 51 sec. )

Chapter 39 ( 05 min., 22 sec. )

It should have cast a shadow over the day. ( 03 min., 53 sec. )

Chapter 40 ( 04 min., 56 sec. )

At the top of it we came to... ( 05 min., 54 sec. )

Chapter 41 ( 07 min., 38 sec. )

She thrust the saucepan under my nose... ( 07 min., 20 sec. )

Chapter 42 ( 06 min., 55 sec. )

We walked on a way... ( 07 min., 32 sec. )

'It's not that I believe any of these things...' ( 05 min., 42 sec. )

We got to Arachova about five... ( 07 min., 29 sec. )

'That reminds me.' ( 05 min., 20 sec. )

She began to bang the bedrail with her fists... ( 05 min., 06 sec. )

Chapter 43 ( 07 min., 04 sec. )

She turned down the pale blue flame of the spirit-stove... ( 06 min., 27 sec. )

I went after her. ( 06 min., 55 sec. )

Chapter 44 ( 05 min., 22 sec. )

'I think I told you that when modern history...' ( 06 min., 24 sec. )

However, from being rather frightened by the solitude... ( 06 min., 12 sec. )

'He said, "I had no choice."' ( 06 min., 09 sec. )

'I got into the boat...' ( 05 min., 10 sec. )

'I watched this rare specimen of humanity for some time.' ( 05 min., 56 sec. )

'I went back to the farmstead a wiser young man.' ( 05 min., 25 sec. )

I trained my glasses on him. ( 05 min., 44 sec. )

Chapter 45 ( 06 min., 08 sec. )

Conchis kissed her hand, and then she reached it to me... ( 07 min., 13 sec. )

A second later I had let go of her and was reaching in my pocket... ( 05 min., 45 sec. )

She leant backward and stretched her arm along the seat back... ( 04 min., 43 sec. )

She answered obliquely. ( 05 min., 43 sec. )

She started to walk down past the statue. ( 06 min., 01 sec. )

Chapter 46 ( 05 min., 44 sec. )

Lily looked coolly down at me and said... ( 06 min., 16 sec. )

I lit my cigarette. ( 05 min., 41 sec. )

She handed me three other letters. ( 05 min., 58 sec. )

'But you must still have smelt a rat?' ( 05 min., 08 sec. )

'We had screen tests. Some woman Maurice knew...' ( 06 min., 34 sec. )

'You said yes again?' ( 07 min., 12 sec. )

She looked back over her shoulder. ( 05 min., 55 sec. )

Chapter 47 ( 05 min., 39 sec. )

I began my supplementary cross-examination. ( 06 min., 13 sec. )

After a moment or two... ( 06 min., 38 sec. )

Chapter 48 ( 03 min., 35 sec. )

Chapter 49 ( 06 min. )

We came to where the beach curved away... ( 05 min., 31 sec. )

I began to walk in the direction that would bring me... ( 06 min., 30 sec. )

In a few seconds a pale movement told me I was right. ( 05 min., 19 sec. )

'What the bloody hell's the game?' ( 05 min., 42 sec. )

The colonel moved up the path to where the sergeant... ( 05 min., 49 sec. )

As he did so there was a cry, an exclamation. ( 06 min., 40 sec. )

Chapter 50 ( 06 min., 50 sec. )

I began to walk along towards the bay with the three cottages. ( 06 min., 03 sec. )

On the far side of the village there was another harbour... ( 06 min., 43 sec. )

'What kind of singing and dancing?' ( 07 min., 22 sec. )

Chapter 51 ( 06 min., 45 sec. )

I lay on the bed and thought of her coming to me... ( 05 min., 25 sec. )

My tears did not last very long. ( 06 minutes, 29 sec.

)

Chapter 52 ( 06 minutes, 02 sec.

'A victim is someone who has something inflicted on him...' ( 06 min., 11 sec. )

This was the 'last trick' of Julie's letter. ( 06 min., 08 sec. )

We silently toasted each other, across the lamp-lit table... ( 05 min., 28 sec. )

The new-risen moon was amber... ( 05 min., 49 sec. )

Chapter 53 ( 06 min., 14 sec. )

He let me look a few moments longer... ( 05 min., 21 sec. )

The beam was extinguished, the engine stopped. ( 06 min., 33 sec. )

'Poor Anton.' ( 06 min., 45 sec. )

''So the eighty of us were marched off to the school...' ( 06 min., 52 sec. )

They took the three to the school, where they were interrogated. ( 06 min., 33 sec. )

'We went into another bare room next door.' ( 05 min., 53 sec. )

'The night passed.' ( 04 min., 57 sec. )

'Beyond those three atrocious shapes I saw the hostages.' ( 07 min., 13 sec. )

'I understood then.' ( 07 min., 06 sec. )

Chapter 54 ( 07 min., 12 sec. )

'But let me finish by showing you the report that Anton wrote.' ( 06 min., 54 sec. )

Chapter 55 ( 05 min., 35 sec. )

'She wrote me a letter.' ( 05 min., 11 sec. )

He caught sight of something behind me. ( 05 min., 02 sec. )

Joe appeared in the music-room door, with two heavy suitcases. ( 06 min., 17 sec. )

Chapter 56 ( 05 min., 43 sec. )

Perhaps it was seeing her in contemporary... ( 04 min., 35 sec. )

Under the colonnade, Hermes stood waiting. ( 05 min., 24 sec. )

I lit a fourth match. ( 05 min., 46 sec. )

Chapter 57 ( 05 min., 20 sec. )

Julie's suitcase stood at the foot of the bed. ( 05 min., 08 sec. )

Chapter 58 ( 04 min., 20 sec. )

She had the amateur liar's habit of looking earnestly into one's eyes. ( 04 min., 11 sec. )

I took her hand and led her silently and quickly up the alley... ( 05 min., 16 sec. )

I went and stood by the window, the now-torrential rain... ( 05 min., 29 sec. )

Chapter 59 ( 07 min., 28 sec. )

I lay on top of her, mastering her... ( 06 min., 32 sec. )

A little smile at the corner of her mouth... ( 07 min., 32 sec. )

Chapter 60 ( 05 min., 53 sec. )

All her story - her stories... ( 05 min., 39 sec. )

I lit another Philip Morris. ( 06 min., 44 sec. )

Chapter 61 ( 06 min., 17 sec. )

As soon as I had done so... ( 05 min., 41 sec. )

The next figure was African... ( 06 min., 46 sec. )

Perhaps a minute passed like that. ( 05 min., 18 sec. )

'Good. Now... if I may be allowed I shall first introduce myself.' ( 05 min., 44 sec. )

I could not keep control any longer. ( 06 min., 32 sec. )

The subject's family... ( 06 min., 16 sec. )

Though I have little sympathy as a fellow human being... ( 06 min., 37 sec. )

Adam called something. ( 06 min., 48 sec. )

No one moved... ( 06 min., 58 sec. )

Chapter 62 ( 06 min., 43 sec. )

A new shot. ( 07 min., 10 sec. )

Then light came from behind the curtains. ( 06 min., 51 sec. )

Lily. ( 07 min., 09 sec. )

Chapter 63 ( 06 min., 31 sec. )

I climbed a hundred yards or so to the top of the hill. ( 04 min., 58 sec. )

Pitching and rolling, the little steamer, made late by the meltemi... ( 04 min., 19 sec. )

Next I opened another envelope from London. ( 04 min., 05 sec. )

Chapter 64 ( 05 min., 29 sec. )

There was a swift conversation in Greek between the headmaster... ( 05 min., 12 sec. )

He watched me a moment more, then came to the point. ( 06 min., 20 sec. )

Chapter 65 ( 07 min., 02 sec. )

Finally, on different paper, a scrawled message... ( 06 min., 30 sec. )

The 'orders' looked as if they had all been typed out... ( 06 min. )

Chapter 66 ( 06 min., 05 sec. )

I returned to the waiting yellow taxi. ( 05 min., 08 sec. )

The dinner that evening was dreadful... ( 06 min., 33 sec. )

Chapter 67 ( 05 min., 02 sec. )

I walked up and down my room... ( 06 min., 51 sec. )

Part 3: Chapter 68 ( 05 min., 04 sec. )

I wanted to say that I hadn't come as a tourist... ( 06 min., 29 sec. )

Chapter 69 ( 05 min., 21 sec. )

The next morning I went round to the estate agents... ( 05 min., 07 sec. )

Chapter 70 ( 06 min., 24 sec. )

Faculty of English, Osaka University. ( 04 min., 42 sec. )

Evening Standard of January 8, 1952. ( 06 min., 23 sec. )

Chapter 71 ( 06 min., 39 sec. )

I walked over the gravel and under a brick arch. ( 07 min., 25 sec. )

'Can you remember one thing...' ( 05 min., 11 sec. )

She looked down at her cigarette. ( 06 min., 24 sec. )

Chapter 72 ( 08 min., 02 sec. )

'I have some ugly questions to ask.' ( 07 min., 32 sec. )

She reached up to the mantelpiece beside... ( 07 min., 57 sec. )

I would not turn and look at her. ( 07 min., 03 sec. )

Chapter 73 ( 06 min., 35 sec. )

There was only one person I wanted to talk with. ( 06 min., 47 sec. )

I stood at the bar waiting for the drinks... ( 06 min., 53 sec. )

'Fantastic.' ( 06 min., 16 sec. )

Chapter 74 ( 05 min. )

I analysed the situation. ( 06 min., 51 sec. )

Chapter 75 ( 07 min., 34 sec. )

I looked down. ( 07 min., 24 sec. )

A minute later, we were going down the corridor... ( 05 min., 50 sec. )

Chapter 76 ( 05 min., 43 sec. )

A young Victorian of my age would have thought nothing... ( 07 min., 14 sec. )

She was always equable... ( 05 min., 07 sec. )

Rain pounded down, dripped in the gutters... ( 05 min., 18 sec. )

If only I had told her at the beginning... ( 05 min., 36 sec. )

Chapter 77 ( 07 min., 38 sec. )

Chapter 78 ( 06 min., 58 sec. )

She was walking slowly across the grass, towards the east. ( 06 min., 25 sec. )

'You're the only person I've ever felt that about.' ( 07 min., 10 sec. )

She was not crying, I leant forward and looked. ( 07 min., 12 sec. )

There was a smell of a bonfire. ( 08 minutes, 01 sec. )

Participant:

Boulton, Nicholas, Reader -- Fowles, John, Author

Notes:

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Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9781843796336

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