| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780060833169 | | Publisher: Harpertorch | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 31244390 | | Item#: R49N5D | | Dimensions (in Inches) 6.75H x 4.25L x 1T | | Pages: 384 |
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| | | Set against the backdrop of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, this first installment of Stephenson's multi-volume epic is available in mass market. The Baroque Cycle brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery, men and women whose exploits defined an age.
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In the first of a projected trilogy, Stephenson explores alchemy as one of the roots of mathematics and computers. With the ancestors of characters appearing in CRYPTONOMICON (Stephenson's previous novel), this literary adventure traverses Europe of the 1700s, with stops in the laboratories of some of the most famous scientists of the day, while in a separate timeline set one hundred years earlier, a drifter attempts to help a young woman exact revenge against her former captors.
| PraiseNew York Times Book Review
"Stephenson clearly never intended QUICKSILVER to be one of those meticulously accurate historical novels that capture ways of thought of times go by. Instead, it explores the philosophical concerns of today....At its best, the novel does this through thrillingly clever, suspenseful and amusing plot twists." - Polly Shulman 10/05/2003 |
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