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“Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England – until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity.Another practicing magician then emerges: the young and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell’s pupil, and the two join forces in the war against France.But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wild, most perilous forms of magic, and he soon risks sacrificing his partnership with Norrell and everything else he holds dear.Susanna Clarke’s brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who, first as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history.

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The tone. I have never read an author who sets a tone so beautifully before. Throughout most of the book, the feel of the world she’s created is dark and dreary, but the book never feels heavy or weighed down by it. Her dark skies, rainy afternoons, and Perpetual Darkness are balanced artfully with a near constant outflow of humor. Even the darkest moments in the book never feel especially bleak– at some points in the book she made dreariness seem almost inviting. She could have chosen to make the entire novel be heavy and somber, but she did the exact opposite with it, which I thought was very clever and creative.The humor. As most people have noted in their reviews, Clarke is a master with subtle humor. Her jokes don’t beat you over the head and are never inappropriately placed. Most of the laughs come from the very obvious jabs at English propriety. Like Austen, she points out ridiculous human behavior without ever directly saying “humans can be ridiculous.”