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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
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Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its premise is that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centred on the relationship between these two men, the novel investigates the nature of "Englishness" and the boundaries between reason and unreason, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Dane, and Northern and Southern English cultural tropes/stereotypes. It has been described as a fantasy novel, an alternative history, and a historical novel. It inverts the Industrial Revolution conception of the North-South divide in England: in this book the North is romantic and magical, rather than rational and concrete.
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
2004, Bloomsbury, Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2004, Bloomsbury, Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Sep 04, 2001, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
paperback
in English
1408856883 9781408856888
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Table of Contents
Volume I: Mr Norrell
1. The library at Hurtfew
2. The Old Starre Inn
3. The stones of York
4. The Friends of English Magic
5. Drawlight
6. "Magic is not respectable, sir."
7. An opportunity unlikely to occur again
8. A gentleman with thistle-down hair
9. Lady Pole
10. The difficulty of finding employment for a magician
11. Brest
12. The Spirit of English Magic urges Mr Norrell to the Aid of Britannia
13. The magician of Threadneedle-street
14. Heart-break Farm
15. "How is Lady Pole?"
16. Lost-hope
17. The unaccountable appearance of twenty-five guineas
18. Sir Walter consults gentlemen in several professions
19. The Peep-O'Day-Boys
20. The unlikely milliner
21. The cards of Marseilles
22. The Knight of Wands
Volume II: Jonathan Strange
23. The Shadow House
24. Another magician
25. The education of a magician
26. Orb, crown and sceptre
27. The magician's wife
28. The Duke of Roxburghe's library
29. At the house of José Estoril
30. The book of Robert Findhelm
31. Seventeen dead Neapolitans
32. The King
33. _Place the moon at my eyes_
34. On the edge of the desert
35. The Nottinghamshire gentleman
36. All the mirrors of the world
37. The Cinque Dragownes
38. From _The Edinburgh Review_
39. The two magicians
40. "Depend upon it; there is no such place."
41. Starecross
42. Strange decides to write a book
43. The curious adventure of Mr Hyde
44. Arabella
Volume III: John Uskglass
45. Prologue to _The History and Practice of English Magic_
46. "The sky spoke to me..."
47. "A black lad and a blue fella -- that ought to mean summat."
48. The Engravings
49. Wildness and madness
50. _The History and Practice of English Magic_
51. A family by the name of Greysteel
52. The old lady of Cannaregio
53. A little dead grey mouse
54. A little box, the colour of heartache
55. _The second shall see his dearest possession in his enemy's hand_
56. The Black Tower
57. The Black Letters
58. Henry Woodhope pays a visit
59. Leucocruta, the Wolf of the Evening
60. Tempest and lies
61. Tree speaks to Stone; Stone speaks to Water
62. _I came to them in a cry that broke the silence of a winter wood_
63. _The first shall bury his heart in a dark wood beneath the snow, yet still feel its ache_
64. Two versions of Lady Pole
65. The ashes, the pearls, the counterpane and the kiss
66. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
67. The hawthorn tree
68. "Yes."
69. Strangites and Norrellites
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