![]() ![]() Not that the Brooklyn-born teenager, geek and academic overachiever is greatly surprised by the discovery, having by this point already graduated from Brakebills, a secret Ivy League college of magic, as a master of the mystical arts. Fictional, that is, until Quentin discovers that the beloved Fillory and Further novels of his youth are factual accounts of a real magical realm. But without doubt, the Milllenials out there who grew up with the works of JK Rowling are at this moment gleefully shouting: HOGWARTS! HOGWARTS! HOGWARTS!įor Quentin Coldwater, protagonist of Grossman's stupendous urban fantasy novels, the choice is Fillory, a fictional world within the fantasy of The Magicians. ![]() ![]() Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians and its sequel, The Magician King, might well choose that other classic of British fantasy literature, the Narnia of CS Lewis. I f you could journey to any fantasy world, which would it be? I, like many millions of others, would have to choose JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth – although, given the option, I'd divide my time between Gondor and Rivendell, and skip the guided tours of Moria and Mordor. ![]()
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