And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms the one between England and France. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very opposite of Norrell.
The world of Piranesi, meanwhile, is built. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Jonathan Strange evoked the silk-hung bedrooms and dusty streets of early 19th-century London, a brilliant, layered conjuring from the past. Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French.
England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past.īut scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. The first shall fear me the second shall long to behold me
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