At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England--until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight.
Soon, another practicing magician comes forth: the young, handsome, and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's student, and they join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic, straining his partnership with Norrell, and putting at risk everything else he holds dear.
literary awards
Hugo Award for Best Novel (2005),
Man Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2004),
Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2006),
Locus Award for Best First Novel (2005),
Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2004)
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2005),
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (2005),
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2005),
Cena Akademie SFFH for Kniha roku (Book of the Year) (2007)
Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959. A nomadic childhood was spent in towns in Northern England and Scotland. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto. In 1990, she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. The following year she taught English in Bilbao.
She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
From 1993 to 2003, Susanna Clarke was an editor at Simon and Schuster's Cambridge office, where she worked on their cookery list. She has published seven short stories and novellas in US anthologies. One, "The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse," first appeared in a limited-edition, illustrated chapbook from Green Man Press. Another, "Mr Simonelli or The Fairy Widower," was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award in 2001.
She lives in Cambridge with her partner, the novelist and reviewer Colin Greenland.
这本书的装祯实在太恐怖了,700页的书一本全,还是差不多A4的大开本,捧着看几页手腕就累得不行了,只能放桌上跟读课本一样,一页一页翻开。印刷更是惨不忍睹,N多页墨迹严重不足,每页那可怕的防羊皮纸痕迹,外加大魔法师那几个弱智字,还一股股的发霉油墨味,我都不知道该如...
评分我算不上是奥斯丁的书迷。虽然她的书改编的电影电视剧看过都很喜欢,但是她的书阴差阳错我一本都没有读过。 开始看Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell之前稍微在网上看了几眼书评。说是用奥斯丁的笔法来写魔法,因为没有参照物,心里惴惴。又有很多评论家说是成人版的哈利波特...
评分其实大多数的时候读到一些小说总觉得少了些什么,但是又说不上来。直到看到这本书,看到它我就感觉到那些书“缺少”的到底是什么了。 咱们受到的第一次关于魔法、国王、大臣和术士的洗礼是什么?是童话和神话!别小看这些东西,这些故事流传了几千年,几百年,有着...
评分其实大半年前就开始看了,看了不到15%就扔下了,跟很多人一样,不耐于它的冗长繁杂。而且看的是英文原版,是典型的英国的句式风格吧,弯来绕去,从句套从句,看得很费力。不过虽然看得不耐烦,还是觉得是本写得不错的书,充满了幽默,睿智的感觉。 过了大半年,又看到有人推荐...
评分1、太厚了。看着手很累,总也找不到好的姿势。 2、非常非常啰嗦。就像陈旧的故纸堆每翻一页都会有很多灰尘,就像一个老太太在絮絮叨叨,不时跳出来的所谓历史,人物,注释,传说,理论探讨,冗长乏味,时刻挑战你的耐心。 3、老式英国小说的味道。作者总试图和读者对话 ———...
行文克制,传统的简直要叫人相信这些事情都是真的,相当英国的一个魔法世界,古朴又回味悠长。
评分小清新奇幻故事.... 不过作者大姐您模仿Jane Austin的语言风格让也就算了,犯不上模仿人家不结婚吧...
评分这书的英语还是很好懂的,语法比较简单。不过故事我不是特别喜欢,感觉就是瞎jb乱编,编到哪算哪,有的坑都没填......
评分第一本千页英文小说。气氛慢慢搭建,没有频繁出现的魔法炫技,也没有复杂的人物琢磨,按理说伪史体的剧情进展相当缓慢,但也还是让人喘不过气来,特别是作为全知全视角的读者,紧张到炸。“Yes”那一章,啊,真是热泪盈眶,热血奔涌。Arabella也是让人心碎。最后的五分之一,仿佛前面所有压抑的矛盾都冲向了高潮,各种伏笔各种早先的细节铺垫都有了完美的呈现。一气呵成,所有的人,包括那些只是偶尔出现的不起眼角色,或者是令人厌恶透顶的反派人物,都直面宿命中的结局,笑着接受一切,一个非常English的ending。 一开始读会觉得有点闷,但是后面渐渐被各种不动声色的幽默折服。很棒。感觉是影视版没有办法还原的阅读体验。
评分有时间完全读完就好了。中间小腹黑小幽默还是有不少,到处cried cried也是看得我快cry了……
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