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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)

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke

Paperback | Pages: 1006 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 185803 Users | 13431 Reviews

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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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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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If a novel of nearly 900 pages can be summarised in one phrase then Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell may, I think, be described as a stately, sly, witty, intricate, comic retelling of Dracula, with digressions and very little blood. Count Dracula takes life from beautiful young ladies, enslaves them, enchants them, enraptures them, steals them away, into his own twilight (oops, sorry) vampire world they become something other than what they were, undead, not alive yet not dead, creatures which

LifelessThe overwhelming feeling after finishing Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell was a sense of relief and then puzzlement that I committed so much time to complete the task. I found the book a great disappointment on various levels, and for once I have to say that the TV production was so much better than the novel.The characters were generally uninteresting including the two main protagonists. This is an era where magic has once again surfaced and even the magicians are unsure of their

In the beginning was a preface, and then an introduction, followed by some exposition, and then an opening. Looking through the reviews, it appears many people either adore it or hate it. Frankly, I'm in neither camp, because I can't work up enough emotion to care. It took a long time to become interested, and I finally had to resort to a strategy of reading only a few chapters at a time, setting free any expectation that this was a book that would pull me in and never let me go. It became the

Book like this are not written anymore. This feels like it should have been published in the nineteenth century and not because of the obvious setting, but because of the remarkable writing style. It is very similar to Austens that Im sure she might have been delighted by Clarkes work. Well, maybe. But, either way novelists like this do not exist in this age, unfortunately. The writing has the feel of a classic, but the plot has the feel of a thoroughly charming fantasy. This is a work of

and the kitchen sink. simultaneously contemptuous and admiring of georgian culture and society, and possessed of many, many insights into the black heart of humankind, this book left me in a state of despair shot through with occasional palpitations of humor and excitement.on the whole, a vastly self-indulgent workand as impressed with itself as we're meant to be.the footnotes, see... i love footnotes. but unlike, say, infinite jest, whose footnotes were by and large interesting and germane,

Sigh, just what we need, another revolutionary, unusual fantasy book by an author with a practiced mastery of tone. When will authors like Clarke realize that what the fantasy genre needs are more pseudo-medieval monomyths that sprawl out into fifteen volumes?Her magic didn't conveniently solve all of the characters' problems, instead, they wasted time thinking through conflicts and then had to solve them by taking action; how dull is that? The magic was weird, anyways. It didn't have a

Imagine 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