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Magician is a fantasy novel by American writer Raymond E. Feist. It is the first book of the Riftwar Saga and of the wider Riftwar Cycle. Magician was originally published in 1982. The book is set in a Dungeons & Dragons–style fantasy world called Midkemia, originally invented by Feist and his friends during college. The story follows the ...
The novel received critical acclaim and was followed by a sequel, The Magician King, in 2011 [1] [2] and a third novel, The Magician's Land, in 2014. A television series adaptation of the novels premiered on Syfy in 2015. Grossman has also worked on two comic book stories based on his novels. [3]
The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (often shortened to The Magician) is a fantasy novel by Michael Scott. It is the sequel to The Alchemyst, and the second installment in the six part book series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. It was released on 5 June 2008 in the United Kingdom, and 24 June 2008 in the ...
The book is still published as a single volume, Magician (ISBN 0-586-21783-5), in the UK. Feist has acknowledged that the Tekumel setting from M.A.R. Barker's Empire of the Petal Throne was the source for much of Kelewan. The original Dungeons & Dragons campaign which he based his books on had an invasion of the Midkemia world by Tekumel. As a ...
The Magician's Land is a Contemporary fantasy novel by Lev Grossman, published in 2014 by Viking Adult, the sequel to The Magicians (2009) and The Magician King (2011) and the conclusion of The Magicians trilogy. It continues the story of outcast magician Quentin Coldwater, interweaving it with the story of several of his friends who are ...
The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, in which he accused Maugham of plagiarism.
On Bookmarks November/December 2021 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (3.5 out of 5) based on seven critic reviews, with a critical summary saying, "Still, Toibin presents a fascinating, sympathetic portrait of a man uneasily dealing with his life and times, including the "decline--of manners and ...
Harry Lorayne was a prolific author of memory training books intended for the public, as well as books for professional magicians. ''The Memory Book'' has sold over two million copies, [3] [8] Bob Dylan writes in Chronicles: Volume One that he read Lorayne's book shortly before breaking through as a music star after finding it in the book collection of a friend.