Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics' favorite "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, " Susanna Clarke delivers a delicious collection of ten stories set in the same fairy-crossed world of 19th-century England. With Clarke's characteristic historical detail and diction, these da...
When the wind howled down from out of the north, as it almost always did during nine months of each year, they were thankful for the high ridge of stone that stood protectively between their home and the great forest beyond. The only sorrow in his children’s lives was that they had no mother: no ...