ENOCH ROUNDS THE CORNER JUST as the executioner raises the noose above the woman's head.
An edition of Quicksilver - The Baroque Cycle #1
(2006)
Quicksilver
The Baroque Cycle #1
First HarperTorch paperback printing
by Neal Stephenson
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In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.
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Daniel Waterhouse, Louis Anglesey, Philip Anglesey, Thomas More Anglesey, Anne I of England, Richard Apthorp, Duc d'Arcachon, Etienne d'Arachon, Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, Elias Ashmole, Jean-Antoine de Mesmes d'Avaux, Gomer Bolstrood, Gregory Bolstrood, Knott Bolstrood, Robert Boyle, Johann Christian von Boyneburg, Caroline, Lady Castlemaine, Catherine of Braganza, Charles I of England, Charles II of England, Charles Louis, Charles, Lord Bishop Chester, John Churchill, Winston Churchill Sir (1874-1965), Duchess of Cleveland, John Amos Comenius, John Comstock, Charles Comstock, Richard Comstock, Roger Comstock, de Crepy, Oliver Cromwell, Roger Cromwell, Claude Eauze, Eleanor, Elizabeth Charlotte, Earl of Epson, Frederick V., Frederick William, de Gex, Edouard de Gex, Duke of Gunfleet, Nell Gwyn, Thomas Ham, William Ham, Henrietta Anne, Henrietta Maria, Robert Hooke, Christiaan Huygens, Anne Hyde, James I of England, James II of England, James VI of Scotland, George Jeffreys, Johann Friedrich, John Frederick, Louis de Keroualle, Jack Ketch, Lavardac, LeFebure, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Roger Lestrange, Hugh Lewis, Liselotte, John Locke, Mme. de Maintenon, Mary, Mary of Modena, Maurice, Jean-Antoine de Mesmes, Minette, Duke of Monmouth, Robert Moray, Henry Oldenburg, Anne Maried de Crepy d'Oyonnax, Charlotte Adelaide de Crepy d'Ozoir, Claude Eauze d'Ozoir, Count Penistone, Hugh Peters, Philippe, Duchess of Portsmouth, Marquis of Ravenscar, Antoine Rossignol, Bonaventure Rossignol, Rupert, Michiel Adriaaszoon de Ruyter, Johann Philipp von Schonborn, Count Sheerness, Sophie, Sophie Charlotte, Elizabeth Stuart, James Stuart, Earl of Upnor, Barbara Villiers, Earl of Walbrook, Anne Waterhouse, Beatrice Waterhouse, Calvin Waterhouse, Drake Waterhouse, Elizabeth Waterhouse, Emma Waterhouse, Faith Waterhouse, Godfrey William Waterhouse, Hortense Waterhouse, JaneWaterhouse, John Waterhouse, Mayflower Waterhouse, Oliver Waterhouse I, Oliver Waterhouse II, Praise-God Waterhouse, Raleigh Waterhouse, Sterling Waterhouse, Wait Still Waterhouse, Walter Weem, Jane Wheelwright, Wilhelmina Caroline, John Wilkins, Earl of Willesden, William II of Orange, Winter King, Winger Queen, Christopher Wren, Duke of York, de la Zeur| Edition | Availability |
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Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle #1
2006 February, HarperTorch
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- First HarperTorch paperback printing
0060833165 9780060833169
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The Baroque Cycle, Book 1 of 8
In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.
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