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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Frank: Add a description of this character.
- Lew
- Cyprian
- Webb
- Merle
- Darby
- Yashmeen
- Chick Counterfly
- Miles Blundell
- Foley
- Lindsay Noseworth
- Deuce
- Randolph
- Ewball
- Mayva
- Jesse
- Lake
- Danilo
- Bevis
- Vlado
- Gunther
- Renfrew
- Katie
- Cohen
- Fleetwood
- Sloat
- Dwayne
- Rocco
- Nigel
- Pino
- Hunter
- Ljubica
- Clive Crouchmas
- Luca
- Bob
- Woevre
- Madame Eskimoff
- Wren
- Nate
- Veikko
- Neville
- Reef
- Padzhitnoff
- Dick
- Theign
Quotes edit
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“Turning to the room, "When Franz Ferdinand drinks," he cried, "everybody drinks!"Which helped to restore a level of civility in the room, and soon even of cheer, as smart neckties were soaked in suds, the piano player came back out from under the bar, and people in the room resumed dancing syncopated two-steps. After a while somebody started singing "All Pimps Look Alike to Me," and half the room joined in. Lew, however, noticing the way the Archduke seemed to keep inching stealthily but unmistakably toward the street door, thought it wise to do the same. Sure enough, just before sliding out the door, Der F.F. with a demonic grin screamed, "And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays!" whereupon he disappeared, and it was a near thing that Lew got out with his keester intact."”
Setting & Locations edit
- Venice
- Europe
- Gottingen
- Chicago
- England
- Colorado
- Vienna
- London
- Germany
- Denver
- New York
- Telluride
- Paris
- Mexico
- Russia
- Austria
- Trieste
- Ruperta
- Italy
- Roswell
- America
- Iceland
- Cambridge
- Kashgar
- Bosnia
- White City
- Constantinople
- Inner Asia
- Balkan
- Turkey
- Halfcourt
- Berlin
- Ostend
- Belgium
- Heaven
- France
- Siberia
- Switzerland
- Stupendica
- Whitehall
- Scarsdale
- Africa
- Chihuahua
- Candlebrow
- Lagoon
- Spongiatosta
- Trinidad
- Macedonia
- Chiapas
First Sentence edit
Now single up all lines!"
Table of Contents edit
I. The Light Over the Ranges
II. Iceland Spar
III. Bilocations
IV. Against the Day
V. Rue du Départ
Series & Lists edit
This book is in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 159420120X
Page Count: 1085
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 159420120X
Page Count: 1085
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Pynchon Wiki: Against the Day: Annotations, alphabetical index, etc.
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