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ab06d9e
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"When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!" --
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mr-norrell
thistle-down-hair
jonathan-strange
scotland
stephen
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Susanna Clarke |
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eec2bf5
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"When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!"
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mr-norrell
thistle-down-hair
jonathan-strange
scotland
stephen
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Susanna Clarke |
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bc1fb8a
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It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house--the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.
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damsel-in-distress
2004
jonathan-strange
house
stereotype
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Susanna Clarke |
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b95bc32
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How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.
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magic
books
2004
jonathan-strange
patronage
bribery
corruption
politicians
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Susanna Clarke |