Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke

Bloomsbury Publishing, Feb 24, 2009 - Fiction - 1024 pages

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Shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize

'Unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years ... Funny, moving, scary, otherworldly, practical and magical' NEIL GAIMAN

The year is 1806. centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell, whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrell. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms that between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.

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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is one of the finest books I have had the priviledge to read. It's the story of two magicians in England who clash on the fundamentals. Mr. Norrell, miserly and ...

About the author

Susanna Clarke's debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was first published in more than 34 countries and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. It won British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award in 2005. The Ladies of Grace Adieu, a collection of short stories, some set in the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, was published by Bloomsbury in 2006. Her second novel, Piranesi, will publish in September 2020. She lives in Derbyshire.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
• Author: Susanna Clarke
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009
• ISBN: 1408803747, 9781408803745
• Length: 1024 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / Magick Studies; Fiction / Fantasy / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Fantasy / Gaslamp; Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / Fantasy / Historical; Fiction / General; Fiction / Historical / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Magical Realism; Fiction / Media Tie-In; Fiction / Romance / Historical / Victorian; Fiction / War & Military; Games & Activities / Magic