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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, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political and 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-Revoluntionary America and back, through the stange 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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Mason & Dixon
• Author: Thomas Pynchon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 784
• EAN: 9780099771913
• ISBN: 0099771918
• ID: 04020059
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 568 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 × 47 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. April 1998

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