![]() ![]() Not since the disappearance of the Raven King – a legendary magician who once ruled the North – and his successors have there been any true magicians. In Clarke’s alternative nineteenth-century England, magic is considered a lost art. But this is far too simplistic a description for what is actually a lengthy, beautiful, meandering tale of magic and ambition and rivalry and friendship, told over the span of a decade and often focusing on subplots and minor characters as much as on its two main protagonists. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is, ostensibly, a tale of two magicians named Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. However, I recently came to realise that I might be the only person in existence who has a problem with the book, and so resigned myself to give it another go. ![]() I remembered little about the book, except that I quite enjoyed it at first but found that it soon became dry and laborious. These are all words I certainly didn’t use when I first attempted to read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell a few years ago, finally abandoning it around the 600-page mark. ![]()
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