![]() The profession of a practising magician has fallen in reputation, and Mr Segundus comes to inquire of another magician who lives in Yorkshire why this is the case. Practical magic has declined in England and there are apparently no practising magicians left in the country. ![]() He is a new addition to the society of magicians in York, England. The novel begins in autumn 1806 with Mr Segundus, a theoretical magician, wanting to know why there was no more magic done in England. It is a very long book, but it is totally absorbing from the very first page. ![]() Neil Gaiman called Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell “ the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years”, and I will agree with him. ![]()
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