The Magicians
Digory let out a scream. “What's happened to Polly?” “Congratulate me, my dear boy,” said Uncle Andrew, rubbing his hands. “My experiment has succeeded. The little girl's gone – vanished – right out of this world.” When Digory and Polly discover Uncle Andrew's secret workshop, they are tricked into touching some magic rings that take them right out of this world. But even Uncle Andrew doesn't realise the wonders that lie ahead as they discover the gateway to the magical land of Narnia, where many thrilling adventures await them.
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Quentin Coldwater, a Brooklyn senior obsessed with a Narnia-like book series called Fillory, walks into his Princeton interview and out into the campus of Brakebills, a graduate magic college in upstate New York. After five years of study, he and his friends find a button to Fillory.
The Magicians was written by Lev Grossman and published in 2009. The metadata above lists C.S. Lewis in error. Grossman is a Time magazine book critic and author of three Magicians novels.
Lev Grossman's Magicians trilogy has three books: The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician's Land. The trilogy is complete. Syfy adapted the series into a five-season TV show running 2015 to 2020.
The Magicians is 186 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Magicians takes most readers 3 to 4 hours to finish.
The Magicians is a standalone novel by C. S. Lewis, not part of a series.
The Magicians is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
