The System Of The World
Volume III of the baroque cycle
$47.07
- Paperback
912 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2005
Summary
The third and final volume of the Baroque Cycle.
Neal Stephenson follows his highly-praised historical novels, Quicksilver and The Confusion, with the extraordinary third and final volume of the Baroque Cycle.
The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with ‘Infernal Devices’ - time bombs. As Daniel and Newton conspire, an increasingly vi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099463368 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099463369 |
| Author: | Neal Stephenson |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 912 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2005 |
| Weight: | 654g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 47mm |
| Series: | Arrow Books |
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Critics Review
Truly remarkable
Neal Stephenson has saved the best until last with The System of the World, a fittingly breathtaking conclusion to his Baroque Cycle, implausibly trumping all of the trilogy’s previous strengths, but unfortunately introducing one weakness in that the whole rambunctiously magnificent undertaking had to end – Christopher Brookmyre * Glasgow Herald *Truly remarkable * LA Times *Historical fiction was never this much fun - or this successful * Entertainment Weekly *
About The Author
Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon; The Diamond Age; Snow Crash, which was named one of Time magazine’s top one hundred all-time best English-language novels; and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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