Most Popular Books by Thomas Pynchon

"This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century." —Atlantic Review "[A] brilliant and turbulent first novel." —George Plimpton, New York Times Book Review The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and “V.,” the unknown woman of the title. Pynchon''s debut novel follows discharged Navy sailor Benny Profane as he reconnects with an eclectic collection of artists in New York known as the "Whole Sick Crew" along with his sidekick Pig Bodine, and the plot of Herbert Stencil, looking to find the woman he knows only as she is described in his father''s diary: "V." Brimming with madcap characters, the novel meanders from New York to Alexandria, Cairo, Paris, Florence, and Africa, and traverses generations. Time magazine raves, "Few books haunt the waking or the sleeping mind, but this is one."

“[Pynchon''s] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel.” —The New York Times Book Review “Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant.” —USA Today “Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling.” —The Boston Globe Spanning the era between the Chicago World''s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it''s their lives that pursue them.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years “The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—The New York Times “The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”—Chicago Tribune “A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.”—San Francsisco Examiner The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.

Winner of the 1974 National Book Award "The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." - The New Republic “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000.

"Brilliantly written...a joy to read...Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best." - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Exemplary...dazzling and ludicrous." - Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Maxine Tarnow runs a fine little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side. All is ticking over nice and normal, until she starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler’s aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, and an array of bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course. Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance? Hey. Who wants to know?

"An exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers." - New Republic "Funny and wise enough to charm the gravity from a rainbow...All five of the pieces have unusual narrative vigor and inventiveness." - New York Times Compiling five short stories originally written between 1959 and 1964, Slow Learner showcases Thomas Pynchon’s writing before the publication of his first novel V. The stories compiled here are “The Small Rain,” “Low-lands,” “Entropy,” “Under the Rose,” and “The Secret Integration,” along with an introduction by Pynchon himself that Time magazine calls his "first public gesture toward autobiography."

"The funniest book Pynchon has written." — Rolling Stone "Entertainment of a high order." - Time Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon—private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren''t there. It''s been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It''s the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except that this one usually leads to trouble. Undeniably one of the most influential writers at work today, Pynchon has penned another unforgettable book.

Fictionalized account of the adventures of the two British surveyors who set the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland better known as the Mason-Dixon line.

Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie''s long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ("Floozy with an Uzi"), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.). For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where or what is V.''

Die Briten Charles Mason und Jeremiah Dixon, ein Astronom und ein Landvermesser, nehmen uns mit auf eine Grand Tour durch die dunklen Gefilde der Aufklärung im 18. Jahrhundert, von ihrer ersten gemeinsamen Expedition ans Kap der Guten Hoffnung ins vorrevolutionäre Amerika und wieder zurück nach England. Wir begegnen Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, einem chinesischen Feng-shui-Meister, einem sprechenden Hund und einem Enten-Automaten.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Hilariante romance de um dos melhores escritores contemporâneos, tendo como pano de fundo as bizarras subculturas do Sul da Califórnia na década de 60. O leilão do lote 49, segundo romance de Thomas Pynchon, um dos mais inventivos escritores norte-americanos, é um hilariante mergulho, repleto de surpresas, na subcultura da Califórnia em plena década de 1960, entremeado de alusões à cultura de massa e à história europeia. Édipa Maas, a protagonista, é surpreendida ao ser designada inventariante no testamento de um riquíssimo ex-namorado e, ao começar a desvendar seus negócios, vê-se envolvida no que parece ser um misterioso complô internacional, que se complica à medida que fatos e personagens cada vez mais bizarros se sucedem e se encaixam como as peças de um delirante quebra-cabeça.

Un thriller literario en el Nueva York de los primeros tiempos de internet y anterior al 11-S. Estamos en Nueva York, en 2001, durante el periodo de calma que transcurrió entre el desmoronamiento del boom de las puntocom y los terribles sucesos del 11 de Septiembre. Silicon Alley es una ciudad fantasma, la web 1.0 está en plena edad del pavo, Google todavía no ha salido a Bolsa y a Microsoft aún se la considera el Imperio del Mal. Es posible que ya no corra tanto dinero como en el momento álgido de la burbuja tecnológica, pero lo que no escasean son timadores que pretenden arramblar con algún trozo de los restos del pastel. En ese Nueva York, la joven Maxine Tarnow tiene una pequeña agencia de investigación de delitos económicos y se dedica a perseguir a estafadores de poca monta. Maxine investiga las finanzas de una empresa de seguridad informática y a su consejero delegado, pero las cosas se complican. No tarda en verse metida en líos con un camello en una lancha motora art déco, un perfumista profesional obsesionado con la loción para el afeitado de Hitler, un matón neoliberal con problemas de calzado, «elementos» de la mafia rusa y varios blogueros, hackers, programadores y emprendedores, algunos de los cuales empiezan a aparecer muertos en extrañas circunstancias.

Narrativa experimental pós-modernista que proporciona o prazer da imersão total num universo completo, tal como os grandes romances clássicos, O arco-íris da gravidade é uma das maiores obras de ficção em língua inglesa da segunda metade do século XX. Lançado em 1973, O arco-íris da gravidade foi o primeiro grande romance impregnado dos valores e da linguagem da contracultura norte americana. Num clima ao mesmo tempo de pesadelo e de desenho animado, uma sucessão de peripécias se desenrola num ritmo estonteante. O verdadeiro protagonista do livro não é Slothrop, o anti-herói picaresco que atravessa o cenário devastado da Europa ao final da Segunda Guerra, mas a linguagem de Thomas Pynchon. É tal sua força poética que, diante do grotesco dos incontáveis personagens e do absurdo das situações por eles vividos, o leitor se vê totalmente envolvido e fascinado pelo universo mágico da narrativa. Passados mais de cinquenta anos de sua publicação original, O arco-íris da gravidade já entrou para o cânone dos grandes romances do século XX.

Los Angeles, 1970. Doc Sportello est un détective privé d’un genre particulier : il vit sur une des plages de la ville, est un adepte du joint bien roulé, et, à l’occasion, du trip intersidéral à l’acide. Avec son meilleur ennemi, le flic Bigfoot, il enquête sur l’étrange disparition du milliardaire et homme d’affaires Mickey Wolfmann. Tous deux ont de bonnes raisons de tirer au clair cette intrigue, d’en avoir peur, de se perdre en route pour mieux rebondir à grand renfort de bananes glacées ou de marie-jeanne colombienne. Il faut dire que quelques coups de massue donnés par l’Histoire en marche ont fini de détraquer la Californie et de torpiller le rêve hippie : les émeutes du quartier de Watts à Los Angeles, en 1965, ont crispé les esprits et les tensions raciales se sont exacerbées, les assassinats commandités par Charles Manson ont créé un profond traumatisme, sans compter la guerre du Vietnam qui a ramené en ville une jeunesse paranoïaque et détruite.Ce polar détourné, aux rebondissements rocambolesques, s’appuie sur une multitude de personnages déjantés avec, comme toujours, un fond musical au son du ukulélé. Pynchon nous offre une nouvelle fois un roman jubilatoire avec un art très aigu du dialogue et des digressions dans l’intrigue.Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Nicolas Richard

New York, début des années 2000, entre l''éclatement spectaculaire de la bulle Internet et l''effondrement des tours jumelles. Maxine, jeune mère new-yorkaise à la vie amoureuse mouvementée, est une inspectrice des fraudes qui a perdu sa licence officielle pour avoir trop bien conseillé un client véreux. Elle n''a pourtant pas remisé son pistolet, et la voilà embarquée malgré elle dans une aventure haletante et dangereuse : comment se fait-il que la start-up du très louche Gabriel Ice n''ait pas bu le bouillon alors que l''ensemble du marché du Net s''est brutalement dégonflé quelques mois auparavant ? D''où viennent les flux de capitaux qui circulent vers de mystérieux comptes à l''étranger ? Pour le savoir, Maxine, entourée par une ribambelle de personnages décalés, va devoir plonger et éviter de se perdre dans le Web Profond, cette interzone quasi inaccessible, refuge des hackers anarchistes, des cybervoyous et des âmes perdues. Traduit de l''anglais (États-Unis) par Nicolas Richard.

The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose -- and "V.," the unknown woman of the title.

Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair--one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic--from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment''s dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.