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Mason & Dixon

Thomas Pynchon

Published1997
Pages773
Open Library4.1 / 5
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Excerpt

Told from the focal point of one Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke – a clergyman of dubious orthodoxy – who attempts to entertain and divert his extended family on a cold December evening (partly for amusement, and partly to keep his coveted status as a guest in the house). Claiming to have accompanied Mason and Dixon throughout their journeys, Cherrycoke tells a tale intermingling Mason and Dixon's biographies with history, fantasy, legend, speculation, and outright fabrication.

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  • United States

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Surveyors
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Surveying
  • History
  • British
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, historical
  • Pennsylvania, fiction
  • Maryland, fiction

People

  • Jeremiah Dixon
  • Charles (Geodät) Mason
  • Jérémiah Dixon

Times & places

  • Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  • 18e siècle
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Oct 13, 2026

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