The Earth Will Shake: A Novel - Hardcover

Wilson, Robert Anton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874772117 ISBN 13: 9780874772111

Publisher: J. P. Tarcher, 1983

Synopsis

In the course of tracking down his uncle's murderers, a young Neapolitan composer becomes caught up in the power struggles of the secret societies, including the Rossos, Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Mafia, and Jesuits, of prerevolutionary eighteenth-centuryEurope

About this title

About the Author:

Novelist, teacher and former Playboy editor, Robert Anton Wilson is the author of the Cosmic Trigger trilogy; the Illuminatus! trilogy (with Robert Shea); the Schrodinger's Cat trilogy; the Historical Illuminatus series; Sex, Drugs & Magick; Prometheus Rising; Quantum Psychology; Coincidance; Email to the Universe; and many other works.

Review:

"More important than Ulysses or Finnegans Wake." -- Timothy Leary

"Devilish ... I loved it!" -- Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone

"When it comes to intelligent dissent, Wilson is the motherload. More importantly, he's funnier than a barrel of monkeys reciting the pledge of allegiance on the capital steps." --RU Sirius, Editor, Mondo 2000

About this edition

• Publisher: J. P. Tarcher
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0874772117
• ISBN 13: 9780874772111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 369