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The Magicians' Guild is the first fantasy novel in The Black Magician series by Trudi Canavan. Published in 2001 , it is followed by The Novice (2002) and The High Lord (2003). The book tells the story of Sonea, a young girl from the slums, as she discovers her magical potential.
The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many ...
“The Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians" follows Kurumi Mirai, a young girl who dreams of becoming a magician after a childhood encounter with a mysterious magician, but fails the entrance exam to the prestigious Rettoran Magic Academy and is placed in the standard program instead; despite her setback, she starts to uncover secrets about the school and her own potential magic, with ...
The Magicians won the 2010 Alex Award, given to ten adult books that are appealing to young adults, and the 2011 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. [3] In August 2011, The Magician King, the sequel to The Magicians, was published, which returns readers to the magical land of Fillory, where Quentin and his friends are now kings and queens.
Unicorn Magic was also written under the pen name Daisy Meadows. Its first series began on 3 June 2019 and there have been no more since 11 November 2021. Each series has four books, with two releasing on the same day and the other two releasing on a later date. The list is as follows: [4]
It tells the story of Quentin Coldwater, a young man who discovers and attends a secret college of magic in New York. 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 ...
The Magician's Nephew is a portal fantasy children's novel by C. S. Lewis, published in 1955 by The Bodley Head. It is the sixth published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956). In recent editions, which sequence the books according in chronological order, it is placed as the first volume of the series.
The review by The A.V. Club gave the novel an A−, saying that it "manages to be a satisfying finale to the series, while adding depth and shading to the world—magical and otherwise—of the earlier books." [1] The New York Times called it a "richly imagined and continually surprising novel", and said that it "is the strongest book in ...