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Mason & Dixon
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 33 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
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, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched 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.
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- Richard Gwynn Price Rowlands
- 07-01-24
Absolutely incredible
The book is staggeringly clever, funny, warm and sad, and the performance is truly excellent.
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- Dr. E. Townsend
- 06-09-22
Clever and well informed but self-indulgent.
Could not finish it. With 6 hours to go I had lost the goodwill to be impressed. And had lost the plot hours before.
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- R. Whitton
- 28-10-19
Maybe a good book
I don't know if this is ultimately a good book or not. it is written in a slightly quirky fashion and the narrator, does not help. I was left completely confused and found the narration irritating to the point of... whatever. have up and returned it. Matt but the book and read it myself in the future.
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