Thomas Pynchon

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....

Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force....

Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet....

This novel spans the period from 1893 to the years just after World War I - a time of corporate greed and evil in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred....

Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executor of a former lover's estate....

Vineland 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 '60s radical who ran off with a narc....

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....