A case of curiosities / Allen Kurzweil.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1992]Copyright date: ©1992Edition: 1st editionDescription: ix, 358 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0151157936
- 9780151157938
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Books | Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room | PS3561.U774 C3 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31560000032173 |
In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device--a talking mechanical head--that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre.--Publisher description.
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Fiction -partly horological theme
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