Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

A Novel

Paperback, 856 pages

English language

Published Oct. 29, 2005 by Bloomsbury.

ISBN:
978-1-58234-603-8
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OCLC Number:
61660468

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2 stars (3 reviews)

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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2 stars

Clarke on onnistunut luomaan maailman, joka on täynnä vaikuttavia elementtejä. Mutta ah ja voi, kirjassa on sellainen suuri puute, että se ei ole lainkaan mukaansatempaava. Lukija odottaa vain, milloin luku loppuu ja kirjan voi laskea käsistään. Lisäksi tapahtumien kulku on hyvin poukkoilevaa eikä lukujen välinen yhteys aina käy kunnolla selväksi. Noh, sainpa nyt kuitenkin luettua.

Subjects

  • Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction
  • Magicians -- Fiction
  • Fairies -- Fiction
  • London (England) -- Fiction
  • York (England) -- Fiction

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