Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
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Recommended by Rachael
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell shares Infinite Jest’s obsession with, and superlative technical deployment of, footnotes, if very little else. Susanna Clarke’s huge fantasy bestseller imagines an alternative 19th-century England in which the Napoleonic wars are won with the assistance of a prickly and reclusive magician, Mr Norrell, who emerges as a ‘practical magician’ after the art was believed lost. Of course, he’s not the only one: enter Jonathan Strange, close pursued by faeries, myth, balls and battles.
From the publisher
The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic, with an introduction by V E Schwab.
‘The book I wish I'd written’ R.F. Kuang
‘Susanna Clarke writes with an intelligence and beauty that seems at times miraculous’ Katherine Rundell
‘A modern masterpiece’ Spectator
‘One of my all-time favourite books’ Ann Patchett
1806. England is beleaguered by the long war, and centuries have passed since magicians faded from view. But one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell.
Proceeding to London, he raises a woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician. Young, handsome and daring, Jonathan Strange is his very antithesis.
So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men – which overwhelms that between England and France. And soon their own secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine…