Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Author(s): Susanna Clarke
Susanna Clarke's novel is an epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who emerge to change its history. In the year 1806, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England -- until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers and becomes a celebrity overnight. Another practising magician emerges: the young and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's pupil and the two join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic and soon he risks sacrificing not only his partnership with Norrell, but everything else he holds dear.
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*Winner of the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award, longlisted for the Man/Booker Prize for Fiction 2004, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award, this is the first new look for the modern classic All three books in the series contain new introductions by Neil Gaiman Published in time for Hallowe'en and dark winter nights, all three books in the series are high-spec paperbacks with black-edged pages
'An elegant and witty historical fantasy which deserves to be judged on its own (considerable) merit' Sunday Telegraph 'Full of spells, bad weather, statues that talk, haunted ballrooms and sinister gentlemen with thistledown hair be enchanted!' Elle 'A nourishing, 19th-century-style novel that will warm readers through any number of dark and stormy nights Clarke makes her magical story ridiculously engrossing' Daily Telegraph 'This is, in both the precise and the colloquial sense, a fabulous book a highly original and compelling work' Sunday Times
Susanna Clarke lives in Cambridge. She is also the author of The Ladies of Grace Adieu.
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 0.692
- : 05 October 2009
- : books
Special Fields
- : B&W Illustrations throughout
- : Historical fiction
- : 1024
- : 823.92
- : English
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Susanna Clarke