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The Great Beast

The Life of Aleister Crowley

by John Symonds

The first full biography of Crowley, by the writer who became his literary executor. Symonds had access to Crowley's papers and acquaintances; his account is vivid and often sardonic, and it shaped the popular image of Crowley for decades before later biographers revised it.

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