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Thomas Pynchon

    May 8, 1937

    Thomas Pynchon is an American author celebrated for his dense and complex fictional works that often weave together a vast array of subjects, styles, and areas of interest, including history, science, and mathematics. His prose is lauded for its intellectual depth and literary virtuosity. Pynchon is regarded as one of the foremost contemporary authors, whose distinctive voice and approach to writing have left an indelible mark on modern literature. His avoidance of personal publicity only adds to the intrigue surrounding his enigmatic persona and celebrated body of work.

    Thomas Pynchon
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    Demolierung - Gründung - Ursprung
    Gravity's rainbow
    Mason & Dixon
    The Chemical Forces
    Nineteen eighty-four
    • Nineteen eighty-four

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.6(24446)Add rating

      The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover the classic dystopian masterpiece beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard Fairey Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101. . . First published in 1949, 1984 is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. 'Right up there among my favourite books . . . I read it again and again' Margaret Atwood 'More relevant to today than almost any other book that you can think of' Jo Brand COMPLETE THE TRIO WITH SHEPARD FAIREY'S NEW-LOOK ANIMAL FARM AND DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON.

      Nineteen eighty-four
    • The Chemical Forces

      • 564 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      This reprint of a historical book originally published in 1871 aims to preserve the text for modern readers. Acknowledging the age of the work, it may contain missing pages or lower quality, yet it serves as a valuable resource for those interested in historical literature. The publishing house, Anatiposi, focuses on making such works accessible to ensure they are not forgotten.

      The Chemical Forces
    • Mason & Dixon

      • 773 pages
      • 28 hours of reading
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      The New York Times Best Book of the Year, 1997 Time Magazine Best Book of the Year 1997 Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatch'd pair--one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic--from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.

      Mason & Dixon
    • Gravity's rainbow

      • 768 pages
      • 27 hours of reading
      4.1(577)Add rating

      Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, "Gravity's Rainbow" is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's "Ulysses" was to the first.

      Gravity's rainbow
    • Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II, and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military

      Demolierung - Gründung - Ursprung
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      The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and "V.," the unknown woman of the title.

      V.
    • Against The Day

      • 1085 pages
      • 38 hours of reading
      4.0(8428)Add rating

      A tale spanning the years between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I features characters who are caught up in such events as the labor troubles of Colorado, the Mexican revolution, and the heyday of silent-movie Hollywood

      Against The Day
    • Mortality and Mercy in Vienna

      • 24 pages
      • 1 hour of reading
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      "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna," published in 1959, is Thomas Pynchon's second story, notable for not being included in "Slow Learner." The story originated from a writing exercise at Cornell, where Pynchon, after refusing to submit his work on time, continued writing and eventually submitted this piece to Epoch magazine.

      Mortality and Mercy in Vienna
    • Essays by Thomas Pynchon, Mary Gordon, Gore Vidal, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Updike discuss the seven deadly sins, plus one, despair, the only unforgiveable sin

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    • Part noir, part psychedelic romp, and all Pynchon, "Inherent Vice" spotlights private eye Doc Sportello who occasionally comes out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era, as the free love of the 1960s slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog.

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