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In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watch making from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude‘s greatest device—a talking mechanical head—that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre.
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A Case of Curiosities, Allan KURZWEILL
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- Released
- 1992
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- Title
- A Case of Curiosities
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Allan KURZWEILL
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN10
- 0241132355
- ISBN13
- 9780241132357
- Series
- Original title
- A case of curiosities
- Rating
- 3 out of 5
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- In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watch making from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude‘s greatest device—a talking mechanical head—that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre.