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.
Hailed by critics for the shimmering brilliance of its inventions and its uncanny fidelity to the textures of the past, A Case of Curiosities places
Allen Kurzweil securely in the ranks of the finest literary artists of our time.
Hailed by critics for the shimmering brilliance of its inventions and its uncanny fidelity to the textures of the past, A Case of Curiosities places
Allen Kurzweil securely in the ranks of the finest literary artists of our time.
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April 1992 : Hardback
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January 1991 : Hardback
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January 1989 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
August 2001 : Paperback
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January 1994 : Paperback
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December 1993 : Paperback
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March 1993 : Paperback
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January 1993 : Paperback
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March 1992 : Paperback
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January 1991 : Paperback
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August 2001 : Kindle edition
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1992 : Unknown
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November 1990 : Kindle edition
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