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<blockquote data-quote="Jaegermonstrous" data-source="post: 8216251" data-attributes="member: 7029788"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Strange_%26_Mr_Norrell" target="_blank">Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell</a> by Susanna ClarkeI'll be the first to admit this book is a dense read. I didn't finish it until after I'd watched the miniseries, but I think it's well worth the effort. Part alternative history, part fantasy, it's one of those books that takes a while to get going, but plays with lots of big ideas about power, magic, and history.From the Wikipedia entry: &quot;Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its premise is that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centred on the relationship between these two men, the novel investigates the nature of &quot;Englishness&quot; and the boundaries between reason and unreason, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Dane, and Northern and Southern English cultural tropes/stereotypes.&quot;[ATTACH=full]133835[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jaegermonstrous, post: 8216251, member: 7029788"] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Strange_%26_Mr_Norrell']Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell[/URL] by Susanna Clarke I'll be the first to admit this book is a dense read. I didn't finish it until after I'd watched the miniseries, but I think it's well worth the effort. Part alternative history, part fantasy, it's one of those books that takes a while to get going, but plays with lots of big ideas about power, magic, and history. From the Wikipedia entry: "Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its premise is that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centred on the relationship between these two men, the novel investigates the nature of "Englishness" and the boundaries between reason and unreason, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Dane, and Northern and Southern English cultural tropes/stereotypes." [ATTACH type="full"]133835[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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