<p>Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. Obsessed with the fantasy novels he read as a child, he finds the real world just doesn''t compare.<br><br>Then one day it happens: he stumbles unexpectedly into a hidden world and is invited to join a very exclusive college, where he will learn the secrets of magic.<br><br>But something is still missing.<br><br>And now Quentin will do anything to find what he''s always been looking for.<br><br><br><br><b><u>Praise for <i>The Magicians </i>Trilogy</u></b><br><br><br>''The best fantasy trilogy of the decade.'' <b><i>Charles Stross</i></b><br><br>''The most entertaining and compelling fantasy I''ve read in a long time.'' <b><i>The Times</i></b><br><br>''Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along... Literary perfection.'' <b><i>Erin Morgenstern</i></b><br><br>''May just be the most subversive, gripping, and enchanting fantasy novel I''ve read this century.'' <b><i>Cory Doctorow</