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 E...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 fiction detail and diction, these dark, enchanting tales unfold in a slightly distorted version of our own world, where people are bedeviled by mischievous interventions from the fairies.