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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Name: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Susanna Clarke
ISBN: 9780747574118

Susanna Clarke

06/09/2004
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell par Susanna Clarke

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur In York in the early 1800s, a society of magicians meet to read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic. In their opinion, there are no practising magicians left in the country of England. Little do they know that they are soon to encounter the reclusive Mr Norrell of Hurtfew Abbey, who will cause the stone statues of the Cathedral of York to speak and dance - and a beautiful young woman to be raised from the dead. Mr Norrell goes to London, persuaded that he must make his gifts available to the government in its war against Napoleon. He swiftly becomes a man of influence and distinction, only to be threatened by the appearance of Jonathan Strange, a charming and rich young man with sardonic eyebrows and an extraordinary talent for magic. It is a talent that will take Jonathan Strange to the very edges of darkness, where lurks the shadowy figure of the Raven King, a human child taken by the fairies in ancient times, who became the most legendary magician of all Elegant, witty and utterly compelling, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell creates a past world of great mystery and beauty that will hold the reader in thrall until the last page.It is an astonishing achievement. Biographie de l'auteur Susanna Clarke lives in Cambridge and works in publishing. This is her first novel.