Author: Andrew Crumey Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction
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ISBNs: 9780312204013 9781873982327 0312204019 1873982321 |
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As the scientist D'Alembert nears the end of his life, he looks back on his friendships with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot and mourns his unrequited love for a woman who spent years deceiving him. At the same time, an exiled Jacobite dreams of journeying to the planets, and in a prison cell two unlikely captives discuss love, language, and fate. Meticulously crafted, D'Alembert's Principle is a fascinating historical triptych about memory, reason, and imagination set in the rich and lavish world of eighteenth-century Europe.
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