Susanna Clarke
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| Title | : | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell |
| Author | : | Susanna Clarke |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Tor Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1006 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2006 by Tor Books (first published September 8th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Epic Fantasy. High Fantasy |
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Librarian note: Alternate cover edition of 9780765356154.Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical England. She has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that eight hundred pages leave readers longing for more.
English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory.
But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman from the dead. Soon he is lending his help to the government in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte, creating ghostly fleets of rain-ships to confuse and alarm the French.
All goes well until a rival magician appears. Jonathan Strange is handsome, charming, and talkative-the very opposite of Mr Norrell. Strange thinks nothing of enduring the rigors of campaigning with Wellington's army and doing magic on battlefields. Astonished to find another practicing magician, Mr Norrell accepts Strange as a pupil. But it soon becomes clear that their ideas of what English magic ought to be are very different. For Mr Norrell, their power is something to be cautiously controlled, while Jonathan Strange will always be attracted to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic. He becomes fascinated by the ancient, shadowy figure of the Raven King, a child taken by fairies who became king of both England and Faerie, and the most legendary magician of all. Eventually Strange's heedless pursuit of long-forgotten magic threatens to destroy not only his partnership with Norrell, but everything that he holds dear.
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| Original Title: | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Jonathan Strange, Gilbert Norrell, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, John Uskglass (The Raven King), John Childermass, Vinculus, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Stephen Black, John Segundus, Mr. Honeyfoot, Mrs. Honeyfoot, Christopher Drawlight, Henry Lascelles, Jeremy Johns, Arabella Woodhope Strange, Laurence Strange, Sir Walter Pole, Lady Emma Wintertowne Pole, Henry Woodhope, John Hyde, Dr. Lancelot Greysteel, Louisa Greysteel, Flora Greysteel, Mrs Delgado, Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Setting: | United Kingdom,1806 |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award for Best Novel (2005), Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2004), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2005), Locus Award for Best First Novel and Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2005), Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2004) World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2005), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (2005), Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2005), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2005), Cena Akademie SFFH for Kniha roku (Book of the Year) (2007) |
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Ratings: 3.82 From 185803 Users | 13431 ReviewsCriticize Regarding Books Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
I adore and highly recommend this Regency-era fantasy but it definitely isn't everyone's cuppa tea! The bad: It's a doorstopper of a novel, very long and slow-paced. The good: It's absolutely brilliant, filled with intricate details, REALLY creative. Give it a shot!Adventures in reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell with my real-life book club (also posted on Fantasy Literature):Tadiana: This book is like a mashup of Jane Austen, or maybe Charles Dickens, and fantasy, with Regency-eraImagine Charles Dickens figuring out how to master the time/space continuum, managing to make his way into our present, and briefly discussing his masterwork, Hard Times, with J. K. Rowling. The result being this huge-assed, yet entertaining tome on British magic. Way to go, Boz and thanks!!Is this for real, Jeff?Not really random Goodreader. I had too much coffee this morning and my mind is racing like a sports car driven by Danica Patrick.This book does kind of hit several literary sweet spots
If a writer is going to publish a book this big (thousand plus pages) then it must be very good, or the readers will never know about the thousands plus pages beyond the heft as they toss it aside or by the thickness as it is put back on the shelf.This book is that good.Using language correct for the time period (Napoleonic Wards era, early 1800s) and richly complex characterizations reminiscent of Jane Austen or Charles Dickens, author Susanna Clarke has crafted a gem. It was the winner of and
Without a doubt the best book I have read this year. I write that without hesitation and with a beaming smile on my face. Incredible. Enthralling. Amazing. The book was over 800 pages long and it did not seem long enough. When I finished the book, I immediately turned out the light and tried to drift off to sleep, because I knew nothing else I did that night was going to top the feeling I got after blowing through the last 100 pages like a madwoman. I want to start it over again, immediately.The
Jesus Christ, this book reads like molasses. It's like the author took every book from her Brit Lit class and consciously tried to make it wordier and longer than all of them combined. I get the point she wants to make, but I honestly could not get past the second chapter. It also was so incredibly pretentious. The whole thing has this superior feel, like having a conversation with someone who is absolutely reassured of how much smarter they are than you. It left me feeling bored, stupid,
3.5 I FINALLY FINISHED
Tired of your workaday lives,Need to get away for a while?Come, sit a spellLet Susanna tell you a story.We go to England in the 1800s, a time of the Napoleonic Wars, a time when most people believe magic to be dead in England. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell are two magicians attempting, each in their own way, to change that and restore magic to England. I can admit that it took me a while to find my legs here, acquire my own rhythm with the writing and the story. In many ways this reads like
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