English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write...
Piranesi lives in the House.
Perhaps he always has.
In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the...
1806 : dans une Angleterre usée par les guerres napoléoniennes, un magicien à la mode ancienne, un certain Mr Norrell, offre ses services pour empêcher l’avance de la flotte française. En quelques tours, il redonne l’avantage aux Anglais....
Anglia, początek XIX wieku. Tajemniczy pan Norrell jest jednym z nielicznych, którzy zajmują się jeszcze czarami. Ale to właśnie dzięki niemu i jego młodemu przyjacielowi — Jonathanowi Strange’owi, Anglia...