Description

Category:Fiction- Historical FictionHistorical FictionHistorical Fiction-Hif
Publisher: Bloomsbury Uk | ISBN: 9780747579885 | Pages: 1024

In London in 1806, a dangerous battle begins between two rival magicians - the scholarly Gilbert Norrell, intent on reviving a centuries old tradition of magic, and the young and reckless Jonathan Strange - and their dark arts are unleashed into the politics of the Napoleonic wars. Published to critical and popular acclaim in 2004, the novel was Time magazine s Book of the Year.

About the Author

Susanna Mary Clarke (born 1 vember 1959) is an English author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr rrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternative history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time. For the next decade, she published short stories from the Strange universe, but it was not until 2003 that Bloomsbury bought her manuscript and began work on its publication. The novel became a best-seller. Two years later, she published a collection of her short stories, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (2006). Both Clarke s novel and her short stories are set in a magical England and written in a pastiche of the styles of 19th-century writers such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. While Strange focuses on the relationship of two men, Jonathan Strange and Gilbert rrell, the stories in Ladies focus on the power women gain through magic.