Download Quicksilver: Book One of The Baroque Cycle AudioBook Free
In such a first level of Neal Stephenson's genre-defying epic, Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge together with the greatest thoughts of Baroque-era European countries 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 Pattern, Neal Stephenson's award-winning series, spans the later 17th and early 18th centuries, combining history, adventure, technology, invention, piracy, and alchemy into one sweeping tale. It is a gloriously wealthy, amusing, 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 people in modern fiction. Audible's complete and unabridged demonstration of The Baroque Pattern was produced in cooperation with Neal Stephenson. Each quantity includes an exclusive introduction read by the writer.
