Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell : A Novel

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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
: A Novel

作者:SusannaClarke

出版社:TorBooks

副标题:ANovel

出版年:2006-8-1

页数:1006

定价:USD15.95

装帧:Paperback

ISBN:9781582346038

内容简介
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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)

作者简介
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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.

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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。

between Lord of the Ring and Harry Potter… Interesting in a painful way…! 🙂

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,…

前面很英国,悠闲到慢得有点受不了。但悠闲中埋下的很多伏笔到了第三部渐入高潮,喷薄而出。结尾差点看哭了,突然间迸发出无数阅读回忆与真知灼见。感觉应该有续集一样。很高兴墨迹了很多年终于读了。

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