![]() “The most sparkling literary debut of the year. Clarke's fertile imagination takes her readers to many a mysterious realm.” - The New York Times “The writing is captivating, the characters charming, and the notion that perhaps there's more to reality than what our senses tell us is, as Clarke might say with a smile, simply enchanting.” - NPR ![]() but recently he had begun to wonder why the great feats of magic that he read about remained on the pages of his book and were no longer seen in the street or written about in the. Join Gift Member Login Library Patron Login SUBSCRIBE TO OUR. She writes about magic as if she's actually worked it.” - Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine What kind of magic can make an 800-page novel seem too short Whatever it is, debut author Susanna Clarke is possessed by it.-USA TodayFrom beginning to end. Read free book excerpt from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, page 1 of 8. ![]() The story shows, in historical fashion, the involvements of magicians and. And that magic: nobody writes about magic the way Clarke does. Norrell is the highly acclaimed first novel by Susanna Clarke, published in 2004. “A fiercely funny, beautiful writer, Clarke attacks her subject with the wit and craft of a Dickens or Austen, effortlessly mixing historical figures and events in with her magical ones. “Clarke's imagination is prodigious, her pacing is masterly and she knows how to employ dry humor in the service of majesty.” - Gregory Maguire, The New York Times Book Review ![]() “ Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last 70 years.” - Neil Gaiman ![]()
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He was the second son of Anne Justine Caroline (née Fleuriot 1793–1872) and Achille-Cléophas Flaubert (1784–1846), director and senior surgeon of the major hospital in Rouen. Life Early life and education įlaubert was born in Rouen, in the Seine-Maritime department of Upper Normandy, in northern France. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality". He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. 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