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Encyclopedia > The Confusion

The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is the second volume in The Baroque Cycle. Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Neal Stephenson Neal Town Stephenson (b. ... The Baroque Cycle, a series of books written by Neal Stephenson, appeared in print in 2003 and 2004. ...


The Confusion consists of two books, Bonanza and The Juncto which are 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. Literally, to mix or join together. ...

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Main characters

Eliza is a main character from Neal Stephensons The Baroque Cycle (consisting of the novels Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World). ... Jack Shaftoe is a fictional character featured in the novels of Neal Stephensons The Baroque Cycle. ... Daniel Waterhouse is a fictional character from Neal Stephensons The Baroque Cycle, a series of novels: Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World. ...

Other characters

  • Dappa - Nigerian, gallery slave, sailor aboard Minerva.
  • Enoch Root
  • Moseh de la Cruz - galley slave, Spanish Jew.
  • Vrej Esphahnian - galley slave
  • 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
  • Bonaventure Rossignol - French cryptologist.
  • Danny Shaftoe - son of Jack Shaftoe
  • Jimmy Shaftoe - son of Jack Shaftoe
  • Nasr al-Ghurab - rais (commander) of the galleot

Enoch Root (Enoch the Red) is a fictional character from Neal Stephensons novels The Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon. ... Moseh de la Cruz appears in the Neal Stephenson novel The Confusion, and is in many ways the mastermind of the Bonanza adventure that makes up almost half of that book. ... Vrej Esphahnian is a fictitional character in Neal Stephensons novel The Baroque Cycle. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Rossignols, a family of French cryptographers and cryptanalysts, included: Antoine Rossignol (1590 - 1682) Bonaventure Rossignol Antoine-Bonaventure Rossignol The family name meant nightingale in French. ...

Editions

  • ISBN 0060523867: First hardcover edition, released April, 2004.
  • ISBN 0060733357: Paperback edition.

It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in...

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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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Timothy Brook's study of this in The Confusions of Pleasure is more a cultural than an economic history, focusing on changing attitudes to trade and commerce and their effects on everyday life.
The Confusions of Pleasure will be a gold-mine for those curious about the historical underpinnings of Chinese commercial traditions — and the gap between the ideology and the reality of economic life under the Ming is reminiscent of modern China — but is recommended to anyone curious about other ways of viewing the world.
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