02431cam a2200325 4500 888337926 TxAuBib 20100506120000.0 040203s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004002402 9781582344164 1582344167 DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Clarke, Susanna. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell / Susanna Clarke. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2004. p. cm. The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and it is hundreds of years since practical magic faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history suddenly discover that one practicing magician still remains: the reclusive Mr. Norrell of Hurtfew Abbey. Challenged to demonstrate his powers, Norrell causes the statues of York Cathedral to speak and sing, and sends a thrill through the countyr. The magician proceeds to London, trailed by excited rumors, where he raises a beautiful young woman from the dead and finally enters the war, summoning an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet Norrell is soon challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome, and daring, Strange is the very opposite of the cautious, fussy, Norrell. Still, Norrell agrees to take Strange as a pupil, and the young magician joins England's cause, enduring the rigors of Wellington's campaign in Portugal to lend the army his supernatural skill on the battlefield. But as Strange's powers grow, so do his ambitions. He becomes obsessed with the founder of English magic, a shadowy twelfth-century figure known as the Raven King. In his increasingly reckless pursuit of the wildest, most perilous forms of magic, Strange risks sacrificing not only his partnership with Norrell, but everything else that he hold dear. 20100506. Teacher-student relationships Fiction. Magicians Fiction. Fairies Fiction. Fantasy fiction. London (England) Fiction. York (England) Fiction. Historical fiction. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0414/2004002402.html URL