Posted on 18/09/04
Surpassing Strange
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell By Susanna Clarke Bloomsbury, 782 pages, $29.95It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in want of a good fortune should write a book about magic. With the world of children's literature lucratively crowded with young magicians, faeries, dragons and djinn, it was only a matter of time before the adult equivalent was conjured up.
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