![]() ![]() Simultaneous release with the Bloomsbury hardcover (Reviews, July 31). ![]() A lyrical and thoroughly enjoyable collection from a burgeoning master of fantasy literature. Sharing narrative duties this time around is Porter, who is equally skilled at playing prim and high-born ladies as she is using more folksy tones in "On Lickerish Hill." The footnotes that bogged down the audio edition of JS&MNĪre mostly absent, and the narrators' very different styles work well to give each story its own distinct feel. ) returns and once again triumphantly brings Clarke's richly imagined world to life. The stories (seven previously published and one original tale, "John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner") deal with fairies and the history of English magic, and are told in the same Victorian style that made JS&MN Should be pleased with this book, as the stories collected here are very much cut from the same cloth. Following the international bestseller Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke returns with an enchanting collection of stories brimming with all the ingredients of good fairy tales: petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time in embroidering terrible fates, endless paths in deep, dark woods, and houses that never. Fans of Clarke's bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr. ![]()
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