# Mason & Dixon

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- Book: [Mason & Dixon](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-pynchon/mason-dixon) ([Mason & Dixon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-pynchon/mason-dixon.md))
- Authors: [Thomas Pynchon](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-pynchon)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9977-191-3
- Pages: 784
- Published: 2007-12-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatch'd 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-Revoluntionary America and back, through the stange 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.