Susanna Clarke






Susanna Clarke

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born
November 01, 1959

gender
female

place of birth
Nottingham, England, The United Kingdom

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genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Alternate History

influences
Jane Austen, Neil Gaiman


about this author

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, whe...more




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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
avg rating 3.78 — 11,913 ratings — published 2004
46 editions
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and... The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
by Susanna Clarke, Charles Vess (Illustrator)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,544 ratings — published 2005
15 editions
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The Sandman: Book of Dreams The Sandman: Book of Dreams
by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author) (Editor), Edward E. Kramer (Editor), Frank D. McConnell (Preface), Steven Brust, Susanna Clarke, Barbara Hambly, B.W. Clough, Robert Rodi more...
avg rating 4.04 — 861 ratings — published 1996
8 editions
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell... Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Book I
by Susanna Clarke, Femmy Syahrani (Goodreads author) (translator), Dini Pandia (Editor)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2009
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell... Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell 12-C TP Floor Display
by Susanna Clarke
avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2005
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"'Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.'"
Susanna Clarke (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)
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"It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. Other men may be in raptures at his skill, but the rest of creation is, by and large, unmoved. Perhaps a cat or a dog may look at him; his horse, if it is an exceptionally intelligent beast, may pause in cropping the grass, but that is the extent of it. But when the fairy sang, the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy's song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself."
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"Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney."
Susanna Clarke (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)
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