Quicksilver, Volume One of the Baroque Cycle

Stephenson, Neal

ISBN 10: 0434008176 / ISBN 13: 9780434008179

Published by Published by William Heinemann, London, 2003

About this Item

, x [4] 927 [3] pages, SIGNED by Author on the title page First Edition , the book has light bumping to head and tail of spine, and a small white mark to the head edge of the upper board, book in very good condition , the dustwrapper has creasing and dents to lower side, good condition , black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, illustrated endpapers , 24cm x 16.5cm Hardback SIGNED by Author ISBN: 434008176.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quicksilver, Volume One of the Baroque Cycle
• Publisher: Published by William Heinemann, London
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0434008176
• ISBN 13: 9780434008179
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

As extraordinary an achievement as Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson's new novel is set in the 17th century, in another world of secrets, codes and conflict. Having challenged Robert Harris in his previous book, Stephenson now sets his sights on Patrick O'Brien...Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, as he tells the stories of Daniel Waterhouse and Enoch Root, the ancestors of his central characters in the previous book, following them from their childhoods in London, to education at Cambridge amidst the political and religious fervour and tensions of the Reformation, through the English Civil War, and travels as far as afield as Poland and the American colonies. 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.

About the Author

Neal Stephenson is the author of five previous novels and co-author (with Frederick George) of two more. He lives in Seattle.