Lev Grossman’s new novel THE BRIGHT SWORD will be on sale July 2024 The entire
1 New York Times bestselling trilogy that inspired SYFY’s The Magicians, now
available in a gorgeous boxed set, including The Magicians, The Magician King,
and The Magician’s Land This beautiful boxed set makes a perfect gift for
readers of the beloved fantasy series praised by George R. R. Martin, Junot
Díaz, and Erin Morgenstern. The Magicians Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but
miserable. A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series
of children’s fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real
life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to
an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams may have
come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and
disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of
Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and
more dangerous than he ever could have imagined . . . The Magicians is one of
the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. No one who
has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss this
breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination. The Magician King
Quentin Coldwater should be happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood,
matriculated at a secret college for magic, and graduated to discover that
Fillory—a fictional utopia—was actually real. But even as a Fillorian king,
Quentin finds little peace. His old restlessness returns, and he longs for the
thrills a heroic quest can bring. Accompanied by his oldest friend, Julia,
Quentin sets off—only to somehow wind up back in the real-world and not in
Fillory, as they’d hoped. As the pair struggle to find their way back to their
lost kingdom, Quentin is forced to rely on Julia’s illicitly learned sorcery
as they face a sinister threat in a world very far from the beloved fantasy
novels of their youth. The Magician's Land Quentin Coldwater has lost
everything. He has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical world of his
childhood dreams that he once ruled. With nothing left to lose he returns to
where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But he
can’t hide from his past, and it’s not long before it comes looking for him.
Meanwhile, the magical barriers that keep Fillory safe are failing, and
barbarians from the north have invaded. Eliot and Janet, the rulers of
Fillory, embark on a final quest to save their beloved world, only to discover
a situation far more complex—and far more dire—than anyone had envisioned.
Along with Plum, a brilliant young magician with a dark secret of her own,
Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic
and desperate characters. His new life takes him back to old haunts, like
Antarctica and the Neitherlands, and old friends he thought were lost forever.
The Magician’s Land is an intricate and fantastical thriller, and an epic of
love and redemption that brings the Magicians trilogy to a magnificent
conclusion, confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy.
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