Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
by Susanna Clarke
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1582344167
- ISBN 13
- 9781582344164
- Seller
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About This Item
Book is shrink-wrapped and presumed to be in Fine condition. Preferred white variant dust jacket in Near Fine condition; very slight shelf wear bottom of dust jacket spine. Tight binding and page edges still look in excellent condition.
Bloomsbury presumed First Edition; First Printing as book is still shrink-wrapped and copyright page cannot be viewed to verify.
Susanna Clarke's first novel, hailed by Neil Gaiman as "unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last 70 years", it has been optioned for a movie and made into a BBC television program. Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket unable to be protected by archival Mylar cover because book is shrink-wrapped.
Synopsis
Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me ... The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very opposite of Norrell. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms the one between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.
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- Bookseller
- Sherlock Joe's Book Hunting (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CLK006
- Title
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
- Author
- Susanna Clarke
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1582344167
- ISBN 13
- 9781582344164
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury USA
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 782
- Keywords
- susanna clarke; jonathan strange & mr norrell; white cover
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Fantasy;
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