Maugham THE MAGICIAN

... Maugham THE MAGICIAN By W. Somerset Maugham. An early novel based on the life and activities of Aleister Crowley, the ‘black-magician,’ in Paris. It includes a long autobiographical fragment, hitherto unpublished. Full colour jacket. Streamers available ...

Published: Saturday 26 May 1956
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 40 | Page: 42 | Tags: none

An exciting novel set in Paris THE MAGICIAN

... set in Paris THE MAGICIAN This novel, first published in 1908 when Maugham was thirty-four, is based on the agtivmes of Aleister Crowley, the celebrated dabbler in the Black Arts. It also contains 4 hitherto unpublished fragment of autobiography by the author ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1956
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 66 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

ILADY N THE TOWER by

... TOWER by John Symonds Book Society Recommendation 10s. 6d. An unusual novel by the author of the sensational life of Aleister Crowley: The Great Beast. The narratorhero 1s a collector of bric-a-brac, a dilettante; here he tells the story of his affairs ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1955
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 66 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

ART'S TRIBUTE TO LETTERS

... he wrote as early as 1908 re-published. It is The Magician which, founded on the black magical exploits of the late Aleister Crowley, still has power to make flesh creep. Sir Jacob published the second volume of his autobiography last year Photographs ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 86 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

Ready 20th October ' MEN | | OF LETTERS | | AND OTHER STORIES |ff| by | e | Noel

... by | John Symonds ’ Book Society Recommendation I 10s 6d An unusual novel by the author of { the sensational life of Aleister Crowley: The Great Beast—' This odd and witty novel . . . entertaining and with a nicely placed frisson of horror.’ — DANIEL ...

Published: Thursday 13 October 1955
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 149 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

black outsider?

... of will ; who formulated his own religion : a visionary and. on his own testimony, more than a visionarythe late Mr. Aleister Crowley. R. L. C. Footß. ...

black outsider?

... of will; who formulated his own religion; a visionary and, on his own testi• mony, more than a visionarythe late Mr. Aleister Crowley. M. C. ...

Published: Friday 29 November 1957
Newspaper: Louth Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

THE GREAT BEAST' WAS A

... newspapers called Aleister Crowley the wickedest man in the world. He called himself the Great Beast. A lord of black magic, his drugs and his sex life assured him a notoriety of which any publicity - minded Satanist might be proud. After Crowley's death in ...

Published: Thursday 03 April 1958
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 449 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

MISS NINA HAMNETT Famous Painter and Sculptress

... after the 1914-18 war. Her book, “Laughing Torso,” was the suabiecl of a sensational libel action in 1934, when the late Aleister Crowley alleged that it imputed that he had g;‘li%tlllsed black magic. He lost his ...

Published: Monday 17 December 1956
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Just a fake

... Just a fake My own view is that Aleister Crowley was a fake. His wickedness was about as genuine as Mr. Stiggins' piety. He was just an exhibitionist who, having discovered he could not make a name for himself by being good, tried to do it by being bad ...

Published: Tuesday 18 December 1951
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 4 | Tags: none