The Magician's Land: A Novel

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Penguin, Aug 5, 2014 - Fiction - 416 pages
Lev Grossman’s new novel THE BRIGHT SWORD will be on sale July 2024

The stunning #1 New York Times bestselling conclusion to the Magicians trilogy

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
 
ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS • The San Francisco Chronicle • Salon • The Christian Science Monitor • AV Club • Buzzfeed • Kirkus • NY 1 • Bustle • The Globe and Mail

Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. 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.
 
Along with Plum, a brilliant young undergraduate with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters. But all roads lead back to Fillory, and his new life takes him to old haunts, like Antarctica, and to buried secrets and old friends he thought were lost forever. He uncovers the key to a sorcery masterwork, a spell that could create magical utopia, a new Fillory—but casting it will set in motion a chain of events that will bring Earth and Fillory crashing together. To save them he will have to risk sacrificing everything.
 
The Magician’s Land is an intricate thriller, a fantastical epic, 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. It’s the story of a boy becoming a man, an apprentice becoming a master, and a broken land finally becoming whole.
 

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
15
Section 3
25
Section 4
37
Section 5
46
Section 6
65
Section 7
76
Section 8
89
Section 17
211
Section 18
225
Section 19
242
Section 20
254
Section 21
265
Section 22
271
Section 23
282
Section 24
295

Section 9
106
Section 10
118
Section 11
132
Section 12
147
Section 13
160
Section 14
181
Section 15
190
Section 16
201
Section 25
315
Section 26
327
Section 27
342
Section 28
355
Section 29
371
Section 30
385
Section 31
395
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About the author (2014)

Lev Grossman is the book critic for Time magazine and the author of five novels, including the international bestseller Codex and the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.

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