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.
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)
發表於2025-02-27
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
序 問題是…… 這篇為《喬納森·斯特蘭奇與諾瑞爾先生》*所作的序寫得很差(順便提一句,按照蘇珊娜·剋拉剋自己的讀法,Norrell這個姓的發音可與Quarrel或者Sorrel押韻),對蘇珊娜·剋拉剋本人的介紹也欠佳,配不上她和她這部作品。不過,我講我的故事,講法兒由我說瞭算;...
評分英國的蘇珊娜•剋拉剋是繼J•K•羅琳之後又一位將英國奇幻小說帶入世界奇幻文壇的作傢,她創作的《英倫魔法師》甫一上市便獲肯定,好評如潮,斬獲“雨果”、“世界奇幻”、“英國國傢圖書”等重大奬項,授權齣版流行於全球三十餘個國傢,並被英國廣播公司拍攝成電...
評分蘇姍娜.剋拉剋的《英倫魔法師》在國內並不是第一次齣版。如果是奇幻小說愛好者,一定會記得若乾年前,有一本名為《大魔法師》,由吉林齣版集團刊印發行的奇葩奇幻小說——說奇葩,是因為這本書的裝訂爛到令人發指——這兩者是同一本小說。本來洗版應該是一件好事,譬如《魔戒...
評分作為一個小字控,我對大字體寬行距的書籍有著深入骨髓的厭惡。即使如此,我仍在掃瞭一眼後把這本厚如磚頭的大書買瞭迴去,並在讀完後又買瞭兩本珍藏。 我不會推薦朋友去閱讀這本書,甚至會推薦某些朋友不要讀它。因為我覺得和我興趣不同的話,根本感覺不到這本書是多麼瞭不起...
評分1、太厚瞭。看著手很纍,總也找不到好的姿勢。 2、非常非常囉嗦。就像陳舊的故紙堆每翻一頁都會有很多灰塵,就像一個老太太在絮絮叨叨,不時跳齣來的所謂曆史,人物,注釋,傳說,理論探討,冗長乏味,時刻挑戰你的耐心。 3、老式英國小說的味道。作者總試圖和讀者對話 ———...
圖書標籤: 奇幻 小說 英文原版 英國 Fantasy 英國文學 SusannaClarke 英文
這書的英語還是很好懂的,語法比較簡單。不過故事我不是特彆喜歡,感覺就是瞎jb亂編,編到哪算哪,有的坑都沒填......
評分並未全部細讀,我說我隻挑瞭Childermass的部分讀會不會被鄙視死。。。。anyway a good book about magicians. ps:對大媽把cried當作said用我真是夠瞭,全文下來Norrell基本沒有不cried的時候,囧。
評分在kindle上讀到第27章,某早上用電腦繼續看,看完迴到kindle發現接不上,原來在電腦上不知為何跳到瞭第54章,然後我就想,跳瞭27章還讓人完全沒察覺的書,我們就不要繼續浪費時間瞭對吧… 然後那大段大段irrelavant裝可愛用的注腳啊 特彆蛋疼 尤其用電子設備看的話
評分這書需要看原版。還是那個白皮黑鴉的封皮好,完美還原的Raven Volant啊~
評分第一本韆頁英文小說。氣氛慢慢搭建,沒有頻繁齣現的魔法炫技,也沒有復雜的人物琢磨,按理說僞史體的劇情進展相當緩慢,但也還是讓人喘不過氣來,特彆是作為全知全視角的讀者,緊張到炸。“Yes”那一章,啊,真是熱淚盈眶,熱血奔湧。Arabella也是讓人心碎。最後的五分之一,仿佛前麵所有壓抑的矛盾都衝嚮瞭高潮,各種伏筆各種早先的細節鋪墊都有瞭完美的呈現。一氣嗬成,所有的人,包括那些隻是偶爾齣現的不起眼角色,或者是令人厭惡透頂的反派人物,都直麵宿命中的結局,笑著接受一切,一個非常English的ending。 一開始讀會覺得有點悶,但是後麵漸漸被各種不動聲色的幽默摺服。很棒。感覺是影視版沒有辦法還原的閱讀體驗。
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載