- Published: 1 November 2005
- ISBN: 9780099463368
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 912
- RRP: $32.99
The System Of The World
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- Published: 1 November 2005
- ISBN: 9780099463368
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 912
- RRP: $32.99
Neal Stephenson has saved the best until last with The System of the World, a fittingly breathtaking conclusion to his Baroque Cycle, implausibly trumping all of the trilogy's previous strengths, but unfortunately introducing one weakness in that the whole rambunctiously magnificent undertaking had to end
Christopher Brookmyre, Glasgow Herald
Truly remarkable
LA Times
Historical fiction was never this much fun - or this successful
Entertainment Weekly