The Magician

The Magician is an early W. Somerset Maugham novel,
originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a
caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a
critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham
of plagiarism.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.