English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fadi…
From the author of the award-winning, internationally" "bestselling "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, " an enchanting collection of stories. Set in versions of England that bear an uncanny resemblance to the world of Strange and Norrell, these stories are brimming with all the ingredients of good fairy tales: petulant pr…
Susanna Clarke’s first novel and international best-seller, “Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell,” is an utterly compelling heroic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two very different magicians who, as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history. The epic is now available as a beautiful col…