An elegant follow-up to Bergman's acclaimed WILD STRAWBERRIES THE MAGICIAN is set in Sweden in the mid-1800s & stars Max von Sydow as the mysterious Albert Vogler of Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater a magician & spiritualist who is en route with his troupe--including Vogler's wife disguised as a young man (Ingrid Thulin); an old crone who peddles herbal remedies & love potions (Naima Wifstrand); & an overbearing manager (Ake Fridell)--to a small town where they are hoping to give a lucrative performance The group is unexpectedly detained however in the home of a prominent citizen where a skeptical doctor (Gunnar Bjornstrand) challenges Vogler to give a demonstration of mesmerism & prove that he does in fact possess supernatural powers Although Bergman thought of THE MAGICIAN as a comedy its more menacing moments are reminiscent of the horror & suspense films of the silent era Alternately somber & lighthearted this esoteric treatise on the nature of truth & illusion should appeal to all moviegoers with a taste for cerebral cinematic fare ...

Meet Quentin Coldwater king of the bizarre & wonderful land of Fillory But he is getting restless even in heaven a man needs a little adventure So when a steward is murdered on a morning's hunt Quentin gets exactly that But this quest is like no other What starts as a glorified cruise to faraway lands soon becomes the stuff of nightmares The Magician King is a grand voyage into the dark glittering heart of magic an extraordinary journey that allows the imagination to run riot & proves Grossman is the modern heir to CS Lewis This is a book like no other ...

Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction From the bestselling author of The Dutch House Commonwealth & Bel Canto Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction & the Pen Faulkner Award ...

In the remote village of Mandryn Tessia serves as assistant to her father the village Healer
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' Dark dangerous & full of twists' George R R Martin author of Game of Thrones Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature a trilogy that simply gets better & better as it goes along Literary perfection' Erin Morgenstern author of The Night Circus Quentin Coldwater has lost everything He has been cast out of the secret magical land of Fillory & now friendless & broke he returns to where his story began Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic But Quentin's past soon catches up with him Meanwhile Fillory's magical barriers are failing & barbarians from the north have invaded To save their beloved world from extinction Eliot & Janet High King & Queen of Fillory must embark on a final dangerous quest Quentin's adventure takes him from Antarctica to the enchanted Neitherlands where he finds old friends But all roads lead back to Fillory where Quentin must put things right or die trying Richly imagined & continually surprising The strongest book in Grossman's series' New York Times Book Review A triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade' Charles Stross author of Accelerando ...

A beautiful paperback edition of The Magician's Nephew book one in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia This edition is complete with cover & interior art by the original illustrator Pauline Baynes On a daring quest to save a life two friends are hurled into another world where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them But then the lion Aslan's song weaves itself into the fabric of a new land a land that will be known as Narnia & in Narnia all things are possible The Magician's Nephew is the first book in C S Lewis's classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia which has captivated readers of all ages for over sixty years This is a st&-alone novel but if you would like to journey through the wardrobe & back to Narnia read The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe the second book in The Chronicles of Narnia ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play All 13 episodes from the first season of the American drama series which follows a group of students studying to become magicians After enrolling at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) soon discovers that the magic he has read about since childhood is actually real & much more powerful than he could have imagined With the assistance of his long-time friend Julia (Stella Maeve) who works for a secret magical society Quentin must put his abilities to the test as he faces a number of dark forces from the magical underworld The episodes are & Unauthorized Magic& & The Source of Magic& & Consequences of Advanced Spellcasting& & The World in the Walls& & Mendings Major & Minor& & Impractical Applications& & The Mayakovsky Circumstance& & The Strangled Heart& & The Writing Room& & Homecoming& & Remedial Battle Magic& & Thirty-Nine Graves& & & Have You Brought Me Little Cakes& ...

Glorious new rejacket of a Diana Wynne Jones favourite featuring Chrestomanci
- now a book with extra bits! The Dukedom of Caprona
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All 13 episodes from the first season of the American drama series which follows a group of students studying to become magicians After enrolling at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) soon discovers that the magic he has read about since childhood is actually real & much more powerful than he could have imagined With the assistance of his long-time friend Julia (Stella Maeve) who works for a secret magical society Quentin must put his abilities to the test as he faces a number of dark forces from the magical underworld The episodes are & Unauthorized Magic& & The Source of Magic& & Consequences of Advanced Spellcasting& & The World in the Walls& & Mendings Major & Minor& & Impractical Applications& & The Mayakovsky Circumstance& & The Strangled Heart& & The Writing Room& & Homecoming& & Remedial Battle Magic& & Thirty-Nine Graves& & & Have You Brought Me Little Cakes& ...

Each year the magicians of Imardin gather together to purge the city streets of vagrants urchins & miscreants Masters of the disciplines of magic they know that no one can oppose them But their protective shield is not as impenetrable as they believe Sonea angry frustrated & outraged by the treatment of her family & friends hurls a stone at the shield putting all her rage behind it To the amazement of all who bear witness the stone passes unhindered through the barrier & renders a magician unconscious The guild's worst fear has been realised There is an untrained magician loose on the streets She must be found before her uncontrolled powers unleash forces that will destroy both her & the city that is her home ...