The Confusion

Overview:

  • Title: The Confusion
  • Author: Neal Stephenson
  • Year: 2004
  • ISBN-10: 0060523867
  • Publisher: William Morrow / HarperCollins
  • Price: $27.95
  • Pages: 815
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Confusion
  • Notes:
    • "First Edition" and complete number line indicating first printing on the copyright page: 04 05 06 07 08 WBC/QW 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
    • Month from code 0404 on front flap
    • The map is on the front endpapers.
    • The "Author's Note" says, "This volume contains two novels, Bonanza and Juncto, that take place concurrently during the span 1689-1702. Rather than present one, then the other, I have interleaved sections of one with sections of the other so that the two stories move forward in synchrony. It is hoped that being thus con-fused shall render them the less confusing to the Reader."
    • The epigraph on page 292 is from The Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence, edited and translated by H. T. Mason. Published by Canchester University Press, Manchester, England, 1967.
    • The epgraph on page 646 is from Robert Merrihew Adams, Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist. Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1994.
    • The epigraph on page 707 is from G. W. Leibniz, Philosophical Essays, edited and translated by Roger Ariew and Daniel Hackett. Published by Hackett, Indianapolis, 1989.
    • Book design by Shubhani Sarkar
    • Illustration of crucible by Laura Hartman Maestro
    • Canadian price $39.95