作者简介

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.

内容简介

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)


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...

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  • corbelle
    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。04-22
  • 花岛仙藏
    第一本千页英文小说。气氛慢慢搭建,没有频繁出现的魔法炫技,也没有复杂的人物琢磨,按理说伪史体的剧情进展相当缓慢,但也还是让人喘不过气来,特别是作为全知全视角的读者,紧张到炸。“Yes”那一章,啊,真是热泪盈眶,热血奔涌。Arabella也是让人心碎。最后的五分之一,仿佛前面所有压抑的矛盾都冲向了高潮,各种伏笔各种早先的细节铺垫都有了完美的呈现。一气呵成,所有的人,包括那些只是偶尔出现的不起眼角色,或者是令人厌恶透顶的反派人物,都直面宿命中的结局,笑着接受一切,一个非常English的ending。 一开始读会觉得有点闷,但是后面渐渐被各种不动声色的幽默折服。很棒。感觉是影视版没有办法还原的阅读体验。05-06
  • 不是过去
    between Lord of the Ring and Harry Potter... Interesting in a painful way...! :)05-16
  • Jean
    看完了,前面三分之一很闷,后面三分之二越来越好看。结尾很好,喜欢! | 26% 这个作者好啰嗦啊!偶尔写到魔法时倒是很美丽。。。不知道后面会不会好看一点?03-31
  • 原作比译本赞多了!流畅有节奏,气氛烘托也好。好多细节还是看原文才能注意到,比如heartache那个预言。10-10

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