The Confusion
- Автор: Стивенсон Нил Таун
- Серия: The Baroque Cycle #2
- Язык: французский
- Жанр: Альтернативная история
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In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession.
Meanwhile, Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, dastardly plots are set in motion ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.
Neal Stephenson
The Confusion
To Maurine
THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE TO BE THANKED
for their help in the creation of the Baroque Cycle of which this book, The Confusion, is the second volume. Accordingly, please see the acknowledgments in Quicksilver, Volume One of the Baroque Cycle.
THE BAROQUE CYCLE
Author’s Note
THIS VOLUME CONTAINS two novels, Bonanza and Juncto, that take place concurrently during the span 1689-1702. Rather than present one, then the other (which would force the reader to jump back to 1689 in mid-volume), I have interleaved sections of one with sections of the other so that the two stories move forward in synchrony. It is hoped that being thus con-fused shall render them the less confusing to the Reader.
When at the first I took my pen in hand,
Thus for to write, I did not understand
That I at all should make a little book
In such a mode; nay, I had undertook
To make another, which when almost done,
Before I was aware, I this begun.
–JOHN BUNYAN,The Pilgrim’s Progress,
THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK
Contents
Thanks
Author’s Note
Epigraph
BOOK 4: BONANZA
Barbary Coast
Book 5: The Juncto
Dundalk, Ireland
The Dunkerque Residence of the Marquis and the Marquise d’Ozoir
BOOK 4: BONANZA
Throne Room of the Pasha, the Kasba, Algiers
Book 5: The Juncto
Chateau Juvisy
Dunkerque Residence of the d’Ozoirs
Cap Gris-Nez, France
Letter from Daniel Waterhouse to Eliza
Letter from Eliza to Daniel
La Dunette
BOOK 4: BONANZA
The Gulf of Cadiz
Off Malta
Book 5: The Juncto
Eliza to Leibniz
Leibniz to Eliza
Schlo? Wolfenbuttel, Lower Saxony
Ireland
A Hay-rick, St.-Malo, France
Chateau d’Arcachon, St.-Malo, France
Eliza to Lothar von Hacklheber
Eliza to King William III of England
Eliza to Monsieur le Chevalier d’Erquy
Cafe Esphahan, Rue de l’Orangerie, Versailles
Daniel Waterhouse to Eliza
Roger Comstock, Marquis of Ravenscar, to Eliza
Leibniz to Eliza
Eliza to Samuel de la Vega
Eliza to the Marquis of Ravenscar
Eliza to Samuel Bernard
Samuel Bernard to Eliza
Cabin of Meteore, off Cherbourg, France
London
Gresham’s College
BOOK 4: BONANZA
Ahmadabad, the Mogul Empire
The Surat-Broach Road, Hindoostan
Book 5: The Juncto
Mrs. Bligh’s Coffee-house, London
Bonaventure Rossignol to Eliza
Eliza to Rossignol
Eliza to Pontchartrain
Rossignol to Eliza
Pretzsch, Saxony
Pontchartrain to Eliza
Eliza to Pontchartrain
The Dower-house of Pretzsch
Jean Bart to Eliza
Leipzig
Eliza to Jean Bart
BOOK 4: BONANZA
Southern Fringes of the Mogul Empire
Malabar
Book 5: The Juncto
The Thames
Dunkirk
An Abandoned Church in France
Winter Quarters of the King’s Own Black Torrent Guards Near Namur
The Track to Pretzsch
A House Overlooking the Meuse Valley
Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover
BOOK 4: BONANZA
Japan
Book 5: The Juncto
Berlin
BOOK 4: BONANZA
The Pacific Ocean
Book 5: The Juncto
Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin
BOOK 4: BONANZA
Mexico City, New Spain
Mexico City
Qwghlm
Book 5: The Juncto
Hotel Arcachon
BOOK 4: BONANZA
En Route from Paris to London
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