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Baroque Cycle: Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, the Baroque Cycle, Enoch Root, Kinakuta, the Confusion

Baroque Cycle: Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, the Baroque Cycle, Enoch Root, Kinakuta, the Confusion


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Chapters: Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, the Baroque Cycle, Enoch Root, Kinakuta, the Confusion, Minor Characters in the Baroque Cycle, the System of the World, Qwghlm, Eliza. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Quicksilver is a historical novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2003. It is the first volume of The Baroque Cycle, his late Baroque historical fiction series, succeeded by The Confusion and The System of the World (both published in 2004). Quicksilver won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was nominated for the Locus Award in 2004. The books are mostly set in late 17th century England, France, and the United Provinces, though the first book includes a frame story set in early 18th century Massachusetts. Quicksilver is written in various narrative styles, such as theatrical staging and epistolary, and follows a large group of characters. Stephenson researched the period, placing events and historical themes important to the scholarship throughout the novels. However, details such as the members of the Cabal ministry, the historical cabinet of Charles II of England, have been changed to facilitate the incorporation of his fictional characters. Within this context, Stephenson deals with many themes which pervade his other works, including the exploration of knowledge, communication and cryptography. The plot of the first and third books focus on Daniel Waterhouse's exploits as a natural philosopher and young friend to Isaac Newton and his later observations of English politics and religion, respectively. The second book introduces the vagabond Jack Shaftoe ("King of the Vagabonds") and Eliza (a former member of a Turkish harem) as they cross Europe, eventually landing in the Netherlands, where Eliza becomes entangled in commerce a...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=32712


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155866031
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 122 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155866037
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, the Baroque Cycle, Enoch Root, Kinakuta, the Confusion
  • Width: 229 mm


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