Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

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.

出版者:Tor Books

作者:Susanna Clarke

页数:1006

出版时间:2006-8-1

价格:USD 15.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781582346038

图书标签:奇幻小说英文原版英国Fantasy英国文学SusannaClarke英文

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)

读后感

给这本书打五颗星，并不代表无条件地推荐，因为这是一本需要耐心的书。它的特殊之处，或者更应该说是特殊之处之一，在于作者基本无视现代小说(尤其是奇幻类型小说)的一切所谓叙事规律。书的结构可以说是松散，尤其是一开始的节奏不慌不忙，如果读者按照普通奇幻的套路推测情节...  

这本书的装祯实在太恐怖了，700页的书一本全，还是差不多A4的大开本，捧着看几页手腕就累得不行了，只能放桌上跟读课本一样，一页一页翻开。印刷更是惨不忍睹，N多页墨迹严重不足，每页那可怕的防羊皮纸痕迹，外加大魔法师那几个弱智字，还一股股的发霉油墨味，我都不知道该如...  

苏姗娜.克拉克的《英伦魔法师》在国内并不是第一次出版。如果是奇幻小说爱好者，一定会记得若干年前，有一本名为《大魔法师》，由吉林出版集团刊印发行的奇葩奇幻小说——说奇葩，是因为这本书的装订烂到令人发指——这两者是同一本小说。本来洗版应该是一件好事，譬如《魔戒...  

我算不上是奥斯丁的书迷。虽然她的书改编的电影电视剧看过都很喜欢，但是她的书阴差阳错我一本都没有读过。 开始看Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell之前稍微在网上看了几眼书评。说是用奥斯丁的笔法来写魔法，因为没有参照物，心里惴惴。又有很多评论家说是成人版的哈利波特...  

用户评价

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。

俺还是不要指望BBC能拍出原作的风骨了【。#audiobook

It is, simply, brilliant!

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。

1. 太喜歡這種拐彎抹角一句話兜三圈酸人回味無窮的文路了 2. Susanna Clarke的筆觸帶著一種自然而然的悲傷 她筆下的死亡 離別和回憶 彷彿鉛灰色的霧靄 輕描淡寫卻重重的壓在人心上 只可惜這個結尾啊 真的太不奧斯汀了