Quicksilver

Volume One of The Baroque Cycle

Hardcover, 927 pages

Langue : English

Publié 11 novembre 2003 par William Morrow.

ISBN :
978-0-380-97742-0
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Numéro OCLC :
671807344

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Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver is here. A monumental literary feat that follows the author's critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Cryptonomicon, it is history, adventure, science, truth, invention, sex, absurdity, piracy, madness, death, and alchemy. It sweeps across continents and decades with the power of a roaring tornado, upending kings, armies, religious beliefs, and all expectations.

It is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe--London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds--risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox...and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to …

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Sujets

  • Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
  • Seventeenth century -- Fiction
  • Eighteenth century -- Fiction
  • Scientists -- Fiction
  • Alchemists -- Fiction