Quicksilver

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Moving from the infant American colonies to the Tower of London, the glittering courts of Louis XIV and all manner of places in between, this epic novel brings to life a time like no other. It concerns the men and women whose exploits defined the age of the High Baroque.

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As extraordinary an achievement as Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver is Neal Stephenson’s first novel in his acclaimed Baroque Cycle.

Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, in a world of war, scientific, religious and political turmoil.

With a cast of characters that includes Newton, Leibniz, Christopher Wren, Charles II, Cromwell and the young Benjamin Franklin, Stephenson again shows his extraordinary ability to get inside a place and time; as he did for the futures of his science fiction (Snowcrash,The Diamond Age) and for WWII (Cryptonomicon), here he does for the England of the Civil War and the Europe of the Wars of Religion and the Scientific Revolution. Quicksilver is yet another tour-de-force from a writer who is simply unique.

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Weight 0.675 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 4.7 cm
Book_author

Stephenson, Neal

Publisher

Arrow Books

Imprint

Arrow Books

Cover

Paperback

Pages

927

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

813.54 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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