The Confusion
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The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is the second volume in The Baroque Cycle.
The Confusion consists of two books, Bonanza and The Juncto which are "con-fused" together, so that one jumps back and forth between them as one reads through The Confusion. This is the only volume of the Baroque Cycle that is so confused; the novels contained in the other two volumes are read in order.--From the Book.
Main characters
- Eliza
- Bob Shaftoe
- Jack Shaftoe
- Daniel Waterhouse
Other characters
- Dappa, gallery slave, Nigerian, sailor aboard Minerva
- Enoch Root
- Moseh de la Cruz, galley slave, Spanish Jew
- Vrej Esphahnian, galley slave, Armenian
- Mr. Foot, galley slave
- Èdouard de Gex, Jesuit fanatic
- Gabriel Goto, galley slave, Jesuit priest from Japan
- Lothar von Hacklheber, German banker obsessed with alchemy
- Jeronimo, galley slave, a vile but high-born Spaniard
- Nyazi, galley slave, camel-trader of the Upper Nile
- Otto van Hoek, galley slave, captain of the Minerva
- Yevgeny the Raskolnik, galley slave, Russian whaler
- Bonaventure Rossignol, French cryptologist
- Danny Shaftoe, son of Jack Shaftoe
- Jimmy Shaftoe, son of Jack Shaftoe
- Nasr al-Ghurab, rais (commander) of the galleot
Editions
- ISBN 0060523867: First hardcover edition, released April, 2004.
- ISBN 0060733357: Paperback edition.
External links
| Works by Neal Stephenson | |
|---|---|
| Full-Length Novels
| The Big U (1984) > Zodiac (1988) | Snow Crash (1992) | Interface (1994) | The Diamond Age (1995) | The Cobweb (1996) | Cryptonomicon (1999) | The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver (2003), The Confusion (2004), and The System of the World (2004) |
| Short Stories
| Spew" (1994) | "The Great Simoleon Caper" (1995) | "Jipi and the paranoid chip" (1997) |
| Non-Fiction
| Smiley's people (1993) > In the Kingdom of Mao Bell (1994) | Mother Earth Mother Board (1996) | Global Neighborhood Watch (1998) | In the Beginning...was the Command Line (1999) |
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