Most Popular Books by Thomas Pynchon

“[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.

"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."

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 1973 National Book Award, "Gravity''s Rainbow" is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce''s "Ulysses" was to the first.

"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.

A Penguin Classic Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity''s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce''s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. This Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a specially designed cover by Frank Miller along with french claps and deckle-edged paper. 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.

"A novel that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Mason & Dixon - like Huckleberry Finn, like Ulysses - is one of the great novels about male friendship in anybody''s literature." - John Leonard, The Nation 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 reimagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. Unreflectively entangled in crimes of demarcation, Mason & Dixon take us along on a grand tour of the Enlightenment’s dark hemisphere, from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back to England, into the shadowy yet redemptive turns of their later lives, through incongruities in conscience, parallaxes of personality, tales of questionable altitude told and intimated by voices clamoring not to be lost. Along the way they encounter a plentiful cast of characters, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Samuel Johnson, as well as a Chinese feng shui master, a Swedish irredentist, a talking dog, and a robot duck. The quarrelsome, daring, mismatched pair—Mason as melancholy and Gothic as Dixon is cheerful and pre-Romantic—pursues a linear narrative of irregular lives, observing, and managing to participate in the many occasions of madness presented them by the Age of Reason.

"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?

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.

Meatball Mulligan throws a lease-breaking party at his apartment in Washington, D.C. in early February of 1957.

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.

Una formidable sátira de la sociedad norteamericana por uno de los autores más sorprendentes de la literatura estadounidense. Un buen día, la señora Edipa Maas se entera de que ha sido nombrada albacea de una inmensa fortuna por su ex amante Pierce, un millonario californiano. Una serie de sorprendentes coincidencias la pondrán sobre la pista de un delirante misterio en el que se cruzan personajes tan estrafalarios como su marido, Mucho Maas -aficionado al grupo británico Dick el Sucio y los Volkswagen, pero en cuyo éxito no cree-, el doctor Hilarius -un obseso freudiano salido del campo de concentración de Buchenwald-, Gengis Cohen -un eminente filatélico de Los Angeles-, o los abogados Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek y McMingus, y el entrañable Randolph Driblette...También deberá enfrentarse con las más estrambóticas organizaciones, como la R.E.S.T.O.S. -una extraña red postal de proscritos-, o la no menos enloquecida Yoyodyne S.A., hasta caer en la cuenta de que la revelación final radica precisamente en la subasta del lote 49.

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.

La ópera magna de Thomas Pynchon, el gran escritor de culto. A finales del siglo XVIII, el melancólico astrónomo Charles Mason y el exultante topógrafo Jeremiah Dixon, dos británicos a sueldo de la Royal Society, trazaron la línea que separaba los estados (entonces colonias) de Pennsylvania y Maryland, conocida aún hoy como la Línea Mason-Dixon. Su peripecia, contada por el magistral Thomas Pynchon, se convierte en un retrato épico y paródico de los albores de la Edad Contemporánea, con indios feroces y rudos colonos, batallas navales y exploraciones terrestres, conjuras jesuíticas y erotismo desenfrenado, hilarantes apariciones de George Washington fumando marihuana, Benjamin Franklin y Samuel Johnson, y donde se descubren desde maquinaciones políticas hasta el origen del ketchup.

Inconfundiblemente Pynchon: tan delirante, cargado de ira y nostálgico como siempre. Se llama Sportello, Doc Sportello, y es un detective privado un tanto peculiar en Los Ángeles de finales de los 60. Hacía ya tiempo que Doc no veía a su ex, Shasta, seductora femme fatale, cuando ésta recurre a sus servicios porque ha desaparecido su nuevo amante, un magnate inmobiliario. Sportello se ve enredado entonces en una intriga en la que los escrúpulos chispean por su ausencia y cuya trama es casi la de una novela negra clásica.

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.

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.

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.

"Spanning the period between the Chicago World''s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred." -- English publisher.