The Magician King
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  • Published: 25 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473537415
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 15 hr 48 min
  • Narrator: Mark Bramhall
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The Magician King

(Book 2)

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26 Sep 2023
EBook
3 Oct 2011
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25 Feb 2016
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The magical new sequel to Grossman's unputdownable novel THE MAGICIANS

Meet Quentin Coldwater, king of the bizarre and wonderful land of Fillory. But he is getting restless, even in heaven a man needs a little adventure. So when a steward is murdered on a morning's hunt Quentin gets exactly that. But this quest is like no other. What starts as a glorified cruise to faraway lands soon becomes the stuff of nightmares...

The Magician King is a grand voyage into the dark, glittering heart of magic, an extraordinary journey that allows the imagination to run riot and proves Grossman is the modern heir to C.S. Lewis.

This is a book like no other.
  • Published: 25 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473537415
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 15 hr 48 min
  • Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Categories:

About the author

Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman is a novelist and Time magazine's book critic. A graduate of Harvard and Yale, he has written articles for the New York Times, Salon, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York and the Village Voice. In 2005 his debut novel Codex was published to great critical acclaim. He is also the author of The Magicians, The Magician King and The Magician's Land. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Also by Lev Grossman

The Magicians
The Magician's Land
The Bright Sword
Codex
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Praise for The Magician King

Somewhere between Juster's Phantom Tollbooth and Narnia, as told by Philip Roth ... The Magician King is at once an existential exercise that angrily shakes escapism by its shoulders and demands that life have a purpose, and a story about extraordinary deeds, heroism, magic and love. It's a fantastic trick that makes this into a book that entertains and disturbs at the same time

Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

Lev Grossman's The Magicians was my favorite novel of 2009 by a landslide, cleverly combining aspects of classic fantasy with modern literature and pop culture. Grossman's trademark eloquent-yet-hip writing style flourishes in this sequel, a creative and entertaining novel well worth the wait

Greg Bruce, Boswell Book Company

Grossman's psychologically complex characters and grim reckoning with tragic sacrifice far surpass anything in C.S. Lewis' pat Christian allegory. Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom-not to be missed.

Kirkus