Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

A Novel

Mass Market Paperback, 1024 pages

English language

Published July 31, 2006 by Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-5615-4
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Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its premise is that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centred on the relationship between these two men, the novel investigates the nature of "Englishness" and the boundaries between reason and unreason, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Dane, and Northern and Southern English cultural tropes/stereotypes.

It has been described as a fantasy novel, an alternative history, and a historical novel. It inverts the Industrial Revolution conception of the North-South divide in England: in this book the North is romantic and magical, rather than rational and concrete.

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Subjects

  • Literary
  • Science Fiction And Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Fantasy
  • Fantasy
  • Fantasy - Historical
  • Fiction / Fantasy / Historical
  • Fantasy - General
  • Historical - General
  • Humorous