“That’s what ‘The Master and Margarita’ would look like if Dickens had written it,” says Alexander Genis, who Neil Gaiman called the book “the best English-language literary fairy tale of the last seventy years.” Here England the country of ancient magical traditions left in the past is at war with Napoleon, and the cautious Mr. Norrell and his impetuous student Jonathan Strange dream of reviving magical art. Here "dark mythology against the background of the delightful comedy of mores in the spirit of Jane Austen gives rise to a masterpiece of the Tolkien scale" (Time). Here, incredible conflicts, human and non-human, are described with absolute certainty, and the realities, style, language of a bygone era are recreated with the scope and meticulousness of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. The novel was translated into dozens of languages, sold over a million copies worldwide and was screened: in 2015, the eponymous mini-series of the first BBC channel was released, the main roles were played by Bertie Carvel and Eddie Marsan .. The translation is published in a new edition, with additional materials and many illustrations.