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Title: Quicksilver
Subtitle: Book One of The Baroque Cycle
Author: Neal Stephenson
Narrator: Simon Prebble, Kevin Pariseau, Neal Stephenson (introduction)
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-10-10
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2767 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
In this first volume of Neal Stephensons genre-defying epic, 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.
The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephensons award-winning series, spans the late 17th and early 18th centuries, combining history, adventure, science, invention, piracy, and alchemy into one sweeping tale. It is a gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive historical epic populated by the likes of Isaac Newton, William of Orange, Benjamin Franklin, and King Louis XIV, along with some of the most inventive literary characters in modern fiction.
Audibles complete and unabridged presentation of The Baroque Cycle was produced in cooperation with Neal Stephenson. Each volume includes an exclusive introduction read by the author.
Critic Reviews:
[The Baroque Cycle] will defy any category, genre, precedent, or label except genius.Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling. (
Time)
A book of immense ambition, learning, and scope, Quicksilver is often brilliant and occasionally astonishing in its evocation of a remarkable time and place. (
Washington Post Book World)
