![]() ![]() ![]() Jonathan Strange is handsome, charming and talkative, the complete opposite of Mr. Soon he would be helping the government in its war against Napoleon Bonaparte, creating fleets of ghostly rain ships to confuse and alarm the French. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman from the dead. Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England’s wondrous past. They could only write long and dull articles about it, while the elves’ servants were nothing but a faint memory.īut at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, wealthy, reclusive Mr. In the early 1800s, they had long since lost the ability to perform magic. The English wizards were once the wonders of the known world, with fairy servants always at their side and calling. Susanna Clarke’s authoritative novel weaves magic into a perfectly detailed vision of historic England. Norrell is a literary fiction book by author Susanna Clarke. ![]()
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