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.
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England--until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight.
Soon, another practicing magician comes forth: the young, handsome, and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's student, and they join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic, straining his partnership with Norrell, and putting at risk everything else he holds dear.
literary awards
Hugo Award for Best Novel (2005),
Man Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2004),
Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2006),
Locus Award for Best First Novel (2005),
Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2004)
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2005),
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (2005),
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2005),
Cena Akademie SFFH for Kniha roku (Book of the Year) (2007)
其实大多数的时候读到一些小说总觉得少了些什么,但是又说不上来。直到看到这本书,看到它我就感觉到那些书“缺少”的到底是什么了。 咱们受到的第一次关于魔法、国王、大臣和术士的洗礼是什么?是童话和神话!别小看这些东西,这些故事流传了几千年,几百年,有着...
评分苏姗娜.克拉克的《英伦魔法师》在国内并不是第一次出版。如果是奇幻小说爱好者,一定会记得若干年前,有一本名为《大魔法师》,由吉林出版集团刊印发行的奇葩奇幻小说——说奇葩,是因为这本书的装订烂到令人发指——这两者是同一本小说。本来洗版应该是一件好事,譬如《魔戒...
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评分这本书不适合一口气读完。那简直就像是放着鲜蟹不吃非要来一大勺蟹粉扳面吃一样可惜。克拉克在这部书中模仿了维多利亚时期的风格,给人一种强烈的时代错位感。这也帮助了读者体会书中描写的故事。 特别是,现代的小说中已经不太可能看到的连续2页的注释,这里面你还能看到好多...
评分其实大半年前就开始看了,看了不到15%就扔下了,跟很多人一样,不耐于它的冗长繁杂。而且看的是英文原版,是典型的英国的句式风格吧,弯来绕去,从句套从句,看得很费力。不过虽然看得不耐烦,还是觉得是本写得不错的书,充满了幽默,睿智的感觉。 过了大半年,又看到有人推荐...
写得很好啊,十九世纪的文风,一点也不套路的奇幻;十分有趣的脚注。32小时听下来竟然不觉得长,还想要后续……
评分#原作比译本赞多了!流畅有节奏,气氛烘托也好。好多细节还是看原文才能注意到,比如heartache那个预言。
评分between Lord of the Ring and Harry Potter... Interesting in a painful way...! :)
评分这书需要看原版。还是那个白皮黑鸦的封皮好,完美还原的Raven Volant啊~
评分在kindle上读到第27章,某早上用电脑继续看,看完回到kindle发现接不上,原来在电脑上不知为何跳到了第54章,然后我就想,跳了27章还让人完全没察觉的书,我们就不要继续浪费时间了对吧… 然后那大段大段irrelavant装可爱用的注脚啊 特别蛋疼 尤其用电子设备看的话
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