Mason & Dixon, English edition
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9780099771913
Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatch'd pair - one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic - from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revoluntionary America and back, through the stange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.
| Autor: | Pynchon, Thomas |
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| EAN: | 9780099771913 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 784 |
| Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
| Verlag: | Random House UK Vintage, London |
| Schlagworte: | Dixon, Jeremiah Englisch; Romane/Erzählungen Mason, Charles USA, Geschichte; Romane/Erzählungen and |
| Größe: | 41 × 130 × 195 |
| Gewicht: | 568 g |
