Jonathan Strange x{0026} Mr Norrell

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Susanna Clarke x{0026}lt;/B (Nottingham, 1959) es Bachelor of Arts por la Universidad de Oxford. En 1992, al tiempo que publicaba algunos relatos breves, comenzó a escribir x{0026}lt;I Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell x{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2005), una obra cuya escritura le ocupó más de diez años y se convirtió en un éxito de ventas internacional, siendo nominada al Premio Booker y distinguida como mejor novela del año por la revista x{0026}lt;I Time x{0026}lt;/I y los libreros independientes de Estados Unidos. Es autora también de x{0026}lt;I Las damas de Grace Adieu x{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2007), una recopilación de ocho cuentos, y x{0026}lt;I Piranesi x{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2021), una novela que obtuvo el Women's Prize for Fiction y cuyos derechos de traducción se han vendido a veintidós idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P