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Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (Paperback, 1998)

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By Thomas Pynchon. A reissue of Pynchon's classic historical novel set in the 18th century. Author Thomas Pynchon. Mason & Dixon. Short Title MASON & DIXON. Review Text. Format Paperback. A hugley ambitious, epic work from this most inventive and creative author.

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A hugley ambitious, epic work from this most inventive and creative author. 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.