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      • But the practice is resuscitated by two men -- Gilbert Norrell, a reclusive but highly skilled magician, and Jonathan Strange, a young and handsome novice who is exploring his capabilities. The relationship between the men intensifies as they battle to become England's greatest magician.
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  2. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the debut novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. 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.

    • Susanna Clarke
    • 2004
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    Gilbert Norrell is one of the two main characters of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. He is reclusive man who has lived for most of his life in Hurtfew Abbey where he has made it his life's work to study magic and become a magician, by discovering and collecting every single book on magic. With the help of his manservant, John Childermass, he is very...

    Norrell is an irritable and sometimes ignorant man, he has a bright personality when happy, but often complains and whines about things he wishes he hadn't done. He has very few friends and secluded himself from people besides his manservant until he decided to try and bring magic in England back to its former glory

  3. Cast. Bertie Carvel as Jonathan Strange, the rakish eldest son of the lord of the manor at Ashfair in the Shropshire Hills and apprentice magician under the tutelage of Mr Norrell. Eddie Marsan as Gilbert Norrell, self-taught practical magician and a reclusive owner of Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire.

    • Fantasy Historical Drama
  4. May 12, 2015 · What is the relationship like between Eddie Marsan’s character Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange? Strange and Norrell are two sides of a coin: in many ways they could not be more different ...

  5. But the practice is resuscitated by two men -- Gilbert Norrell, a reclusive but highly skilled magician, and Jonathan Strange, a young and handsome novice who is exploring his capabilities. The...

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    • Toby Haynes
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    • Bertie Carvel
  6. May 29, 2015 · Seeing his chance to hop aboard the most fashionable new thing, he allies himself with Gilbert Norrell, appointing himself social secretary and lickspittle-in-ordinary to the Greatest Magician in the Land.

  7. May 12, 2015 · Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Mr Norrell is an intellectual, reclusive, fussy man in his 50s. Self-proclaimed as England’s greatest and only magician, he resides in Yorkshire at Hurtfew...

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