The Magicians

<p>Quentin Clearwater is brilliant but miserable. Obsessed with the fantasy novels he read as a child, he finds the real world just doesn't compare.<br><br>Then one day it happens: he stumbles unexpectedly into a hidden world and is invited to join a very exclusive college, where he will learn the secrets of magic.<br><br>But something is still missing.<br><br>And now Quentin will do anything to find what he's always been looking for.<br><br><br><br><b><u>Praise for <i>The Magicians </i>Trilogy</u></b><br><br><br>'The best fantasy trilogy of the decade.' <b><i>Charles Stross</i></b><br><br>'The most entertaining and compelling fantasy I've read in a long time.' <b><i>The Times</i></b><br><br>'Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along... Literary perfection.' <b><i>Erin Morgenstern</i></b><br><br>'May just be the most subversive, gripping, and enchanting fantasy novel I've read this century.' <b><i>Cory Doctorow</i></b><br><br>'Dark and dangerous and full of twists. Hogwarts was never like this.' <b><i>George R. R. Martin</i></b><br><br>'Sad, hilarious, beautiful, and essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy.' <b><i>Joe Hill</i></b><br><br>'A darkly cunning story about the power of imagination itself.' <b>The New Yorker</b><br><br>'<i>The Magicians</i> ought to be required reading... a terrific, at times almost painfully perceptive novel of the fantastic.' <b><i>Kelly Link</i></b><br><br>'Brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what's simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath.' <b><i>Naomi Novik</i></b></p> <p>Quentin Clearwater is brilliant but miserable. Obsessed with the fantasy novels he read as a child, he finds the real world just doesn't compare.<br><br>Then one day it happens: he stumbles unexpectedly into a hidden world and is invited to join a very exclusive college, where he will learn the secrets of magic.<br><br>But something is still missing.<br><br>And now Quentin will do anything to find what he's always been looking for.<br><br><br><br><b><u>Praise for <i>The Magicians </i>Trilogy</u></b><br><br><br>'The best fantasy trilogy of the decade.' <b><i>Charles Stross</i></b><br><br>'The most entertaining and compelling fantasy I've read in a long time.' <b><i>The Times</i></b><br><br>'Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along... Literary perfection.' <b><i>Erin Morgenstern</i></b><br><br>'May just be the most subversive, gripping, and enchanting fantasy novel I've read this century.' <b><i>Cory Doctorow</i></b><br><br>'Dark and dangerous and full of twists. Hogwarts was never like this.' <b><i>George R. R. Martin</i></b><br><br>'Sad, hilarious, beautiful, and essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy.' <b><i>Joe Hill</i></b><br><br>'A darkly cunning story about the power of imagination itself.' <b>The New Yorker</b><br><br>'<i>The Magicians</i> ought to be required reading... a terrific, at times almost painfully perceptive novel of the fantastic.' <b><i>Kelly Link</i></b><br><br>'Brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what's simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath.' <b><i>Naomi Novik</i></b></p>