{"title":"The Baroque Cycle","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooks from the 3 volume series.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-system-of-the-world-the-baroque-cycle-vol-3","title":"The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Tis done.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princess's behest. But while much has changed outwardly, the duplicity and danger that once drove Daniel to the American Colonies is still coin of the British realm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo sooner has Daniel set foot on his homeland when he is embroiled in a dark conflict that has been raging in the shadows for decades. It is a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist Isaac Newton and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, a.k.a. Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level, as Half-Cocked Jack plots a daring assault on the Tower itself, aiming for nothing less than the total corruption of Britain's newborn monetary system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnbeknownst to all, it is love that set the Coiner on his traitorous course; the desperate need to protect the woman of his heart -- the remarkable Eliza, Duchess of Arcachon-Qwghlm -- from those who would destroy her should he fail. Meanwhile, Daniel Waterhouse and his Clubb of unlikely cronies comb city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with Infernal Devices -- as political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen; as the \"holy grail\" of alchemy, the key to life eternal, tantalizes and continues to elude Isaac Newton, yet is closer than he ever imagined; as the greatest technological innovation in history slowly takes shape in Waterhouse's manufactory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything that was will be changed forever ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe System of the World is the concluding volume in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, begun with Quicksilver and continued in The Confusion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EasonBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43489347534927,"sku":"0060523875","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/8328\/0463\/files\/9780060523879.jpg?v=1754449311"},{"product_id":"the-confusion-the-baroque-cycle-vol-2","title":"The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, back in Europe ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, 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 -- her child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNewton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EasonBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43489347633231,"sku":"0060523867","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/8328\/0463\/files\/9780060523862.jpg?v=1754449311"},{"product_id":"quicksilver-the-baroque-cycle-vol-1","title":"Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNeal Stephenson's Quicksilver is here. A monumental literary feat that follows the author's critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Cryptonomicon, it is history, adventure, science, truth, invention, sex, absurdity, piracy, madness, death, and alchemy. It sweeps across continents and decades with the power of a roaring tornado, upending kings, armies, religious beliefs, and all expectations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, 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. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of \"Half-Cocked Jack\" Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox ... and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life -- a historical epic populated by the likes of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, William of Orange, Benjamin Franklin, and King Louis XIV -- Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it's just the beginning ...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EasonBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43489347600463,"sku":"0380977427","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/8328\/0463\/files\/9780380977420.jpg?v=1754449311"}],"url":"https:\/\/easonbooks.com\/collections\/the-baroque-cycle.oembed","provider":"EasonBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}