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Название книги: THE System OF THE WORLD
Автор(ы): Neal Stephenson
Жанр: Альтернативная история
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VOL. III ofTHE BAROQUE CYCLE
To Mildred
Contents
The story thus far…
EPIGRAPH BOOK SIX
Solomon’s Gold
BOOK SEVEN
Currency
BOOK EIGHT
The System of the World
EPILOGS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY NEAL STEPHENSON
CREDITS COPYRIGHT ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
But first whom shall we sendIn search of this new world, whom shall we findSufficient? Who shall tempt with wandring feetThe dark unbottom’d infinite AbyssAnd through the palpable obscure find outHis uncouth way, or spread his aerie flightUpborn with indefatigable wingsOver the vast abrupt, ere he arriveThe happy Ile…MILTON, Paradise Lost
The story thus far…
In Boston in October 1713, Daniel Waterhouse, sixty-seven years of age, the Founder and sole Fellow of a failing college, the Massachusetts Bay Colony of Technologickal Arts, has received a startling visit from the Alchemist Enoch Root, who has appeared on his doorstep brandishing a summons addressed to Daniel from Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, thirt