Jonathan Strange and Mr NorrellIn the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change England's history when they bring magic back into the world. In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity. Another practicing magician then emerges: the young and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's pupil, and the two join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wild, most perilous forms of magic, and he soon risks sacrificing his partnership with Norrell and everything else he holds dear. Susanna Clarke's brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who, first as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history. |
Contents
The Friends of English Magic | |
Drawlight | |
Magic is not respectable sir | |
The Cinque Dragownes | |
From The Edinburgh Review | |
The two magicians | |
Depend upon it there is no such place | |
Starecross | |
Strange decides to write a book | |
The curious adventure of Mr Hyde | |
Arabella | |
An opportunity unlikely to occur again | |
Agentleman with thistledown hair | |
Lady Pole | |
The difficulty of finding employment for a magician | |
Brest | |
The Spirit of English Magic urges Mr Norrell to the Aid of Britannia | |
The magician of Threadneedlestreet | |
Heartbreak Farm | |
How is Lady Pole? | |
Losthope | |
The unaccountable appearance of twentyfive guineas | |
Sir Walter consults gentlemen in several professions | |
The PeepODayBoys | |
The unlikely milliner | |
The cards of Marseilles | |
The Knight of Wands | |
Jonathan Strange | |
The Shadow House | |
Another magician | |
The education of a magician | |
Orb crown and sceptre | |
The magicians wife | |
The Duke of Roxburghes library | |
At the house of José Estoril | |
The book of Robert Findhelm | |
Seventeen dead Neapolitans | |
The King | |
Place the moon at my eyes | |
On the edge of the desert | |
The Nottinghamshire gentleman | |
All the mirrors of the world | |
John Uskglass | |
Prologue to The History and Practice of English Magic | |
The sky spoke to me | |
A black lad and a blue fella that ought to mean summat | |
The Engravings | |
Wildness and madness | |
The History and Practice of English Magic | |
A family by the name of Greysteel | |
The old lady of Cannaregio | |
A little dead grey mouse | |
A little box the colour of heartache | |
The second shall see his dearest possession in his enemys hand | |
The Black Tower | |
The Black Letters | |
Henry Woodhope pays a visit | |
Leucrocuta the Wolf of the Evening | |
Tempest and lies | |
Tree speaks to Stone Stone speaks to Water | |
came to them in a cry that broke the silence of a winter wood | |
The first shall bury his heart in a dark wood beneath the snow yet still feel its ache | |
Two versions of Lady Pole | |
The ashes the pearls the counterpane and the kiss | |
66Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell | |
The hawthorn tree | |
Yes | |
Strangites and Norrellites | |
Acknowledgements | |
Notes | |
A Note on the Author | |
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