The Magic of Wealth is an 1815 novel by the British writer Thomas Skinner Surr, published in three volumes by Cadell & Davies in London.

It focuses on the development of a new resort town by financial speculators.

Surr negatively contrasts the speculative banker behind the development with the traditional elite represented by the local squire.

[1] Thematically it is similar to Jane Austen's unfinished Sanditon (1817) and Walter Scott's Saint Ronan's Well (1823).

[2] Surr's criticism of banks and financial speculation was a common theme in other novels of the era, including Thomas Gaspey's Calthorpe (1821).