Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. 24.2x16.8cm: 782, [6]pp. First US Edition. Illustrated by Portia Rosenberg. Signed on half-title page by author. Black paper-covered boards with gilt titling to spine. Red endpapers. Black dust jacket with white tilting to front and spine. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, is set in an alternative English history during the Napoleonic Wars, where magic returns to the nation through two men: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Gilbert Norrell. Written in a style that pays homage to nineteenth-century authors such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.
The book received widespread critical acclaim, winning the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best First Novel, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Neil Gaiman praised it as “unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last 70 years.”.
Price: $250.00
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