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作       者:Stephenson, Neal

出  版  社:William Morrow

出版时间:2009-10-01

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Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing 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. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance. A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life, Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time. And it's just the beginning ...
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Dedication

Contents

Invocation

BOOK ONE Quicksilver

Boston Common

1655

Newtowne, Massachusetts Bay Colony

College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Cambridge

Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony

College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Cambridge

Aboard Minerva, Massachusetts Bay

College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Cambridge

Aboard Minerva, Massachusetts Bay

Banks of the River Cam

Aboard Minerva, off the Coast of New England

The Plague Year

Epsom

Aboard Minerva, Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts

Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire

Aboard Minerva, Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts

Charing Cross

Royal Society Meeting, Gresham’s College

Aboard Minerva, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts

Gresham’s College, Bishopsgate, London

College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Cambridge

London Bridge

Aboard Minerva, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts

Royal Society Meeting, Gunfleet House

Aboard Minerva, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts

The City of London

Aboard Minerva, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts

BOOK TWO King of the Vagabonds

The Mud Below London

The Continent

Erstwhile Camp of Grand Vizier Khan Mustapha

Bohemia

Bohemia

Leipzig

Saxony

The Harz Mountains

The Place

The Dutch Republic

Paris

The Hague

France

Amsterdam

Paris

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Coast of Europe and of Northern Africa

BOOK THREE Odalisque

Whitehall Palace

Versailles

London

Beach North of Scheveningen

Dorset

The Exchange [Between Threadneedle and Cornhill]

Versailles

Bank of Het Kanaal, Between Scheveningen and the Hague

Versailles

The Star Chamber, Westminster Palace

Versailles

Tower of London

Château Juvisy

St. Cloud

Rossignol to Louis XIV Continued

French Embassy, the Hague

Rossignol to Louis XIV Continued

Rossignol to Louis XIV Continued

Sheerness, England

Venice

The Hague

Bishopsgate

Dramatis Personae

Acknowledgments

About the Autor

Also By Neal Stephenson

Copyright

About the Publisher

Maps

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