Mason & Dixon: A NovelMacmillan, 1997 - 773 pàgines 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, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched 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-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange 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. |
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I | 3 |
II | 5 |
III | 12 |
IV | 14 |
V | 30 |
VI | 42 |
VII | 47 |
VIII | 58 |
XLI | 399 |
XLII | 410 |
XLIII | 422 |
XLIV | 436 |
XLV | 440 |
XLVI | 448 |
XLVII | 452 |
XLVIII | 460 |
IX | 77 |
X | 87 |
XI | 94 |
XII | 105 |
XIII | 116 |
XIV | 125 |
XV | 146 |
XVI | 158 |
XVII | 167 |
XVIII | 175 |
XIX | 183 |
XX | 190 |
XXI | 199 |
XXII | 207 |
XXIII | 215 |
XXIV | 228 |
XXV | 238 |
XXVI | 246 |
XXVII | 257 |
XXVIII | 266 |
XXIX | 275 |
XXX | 289 |
XXXI | 296 |
XXXII | 302 |
XXXIII | 315 |
XXXIV | 327 |
XXXV | 341 |
XXXVI | 349 |
XXXVII | 362 |
XXXVIII | 371 |
XXXIX | 382 |
XL | 391 |
XLIX | 466 |
L | 476 |
LI | 484 |
LII | 491 |
LIII | 499 |
LIV | 511 |
LV | 525 |
LVI | 542 |
LVII | 554 |
LVIII | 562 |
LIX | 570 |
LX | 575 |
LXI | 585 |
LXII | 597 |
LXIII | 608 |
LXIV | 618 |
LXV | 623 |
LXVI | 629 |
LXVII | 633 |
LXVIII | 646 |
LXIX | 658 |
LXX | 665 |
LXXI | 678 |
LXXII | 687 |
LXXIII | 694 |
LXXIV | 706 |
LXXV | 717 |
LXXVI | 733 |
LXXVII | 744 |
LXXVIII | 749 |
LXXIX | 758 |
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Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-century Britain Shaun Irlam Previsualització no disponible - 1999 |