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Strange & Norrell #1
Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell
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A principios del siglo XIX, las hazañas del Rey Cuervo, el más grande de todos los magos de la Edad Media, perviven en la memoria y la leyenda, pero la práctica de la magia ha sido completamente olvidada en Inglaterra. Hasta el día en que el esquivo señor Norrell, de Hurtfew Abbey, logra que las piedras de la catedral de York hablen. La noticia del retorno de la magia se extiende como la pólvora y el señor Norrell, convencido de que debe poner sus artes al servicio del gobierno en la guerra contra Napoleón, se traslada a Londres. Allí conoce al joven Jonathan Strange, un brillante y voluntarioso mago, y tras superar algunos recelos, consiente en acogerlo como discípulo. En una época en la que sólo los charlatanes se hacían llamar magos, Norrell y Strange se proponen limpiar el buen nombre de su oficio, al que consideran una ciencia con mayúsculas. Bajo las órdenes de Wellington, realizarán decenas de actos mágicos, y su éxito es tal que muy pronto se los consultará sobre muchos otros problemas, desde la curación de la locura del rey Jorge III hasta la mejor venganza para amantes despechados. A su paso encontrarán amor y muerte, portentos y crueldades, y arrastrados por la ambición y la rivalidad, el camino de la gloria los acercará irremediablemente al abismo.
795 pages, Paperback
First published September 8,2004
This edition
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795 pages, Paperback
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September 1, 2005 by Salamandra
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9788478889730
- ASIN
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8478889736
- Language
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Spanish; Castilian
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Jonathan Strange
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Gilbert Norrell
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George Gordon Byron 6th Baron Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (1788 - 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byrons best-known works are the brief poems She ...
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John Childermass
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Vinculus
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About the author
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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.
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.
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