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- Book Title
- Signature of All Things : a Novel
- Publication Name
- The Signature of All Things
- Title
- The Signature of All Things
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0143125842
- EAN
- 9780143125846
- ISBN
- 9780143125846
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, Family Life, Literary, Historical
- Release Year
- 2014
- Release Date
- 24/06/2014
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 14 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Number of Pages
- 528 Pages
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A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and City of Girls In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker--a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction--into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist--but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life. Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe--from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who--born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution--bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert's wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.
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Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143125842
ISBN-13
9780143125846
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Signature of All Things : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Family Life, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
528 Pages
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Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
14 Oz
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"A rip-roaring tale... unlike anything Gilbert has ever written... Its prose has the elegant sheen of a nineteenth-century epic, but its concerns... are essentially modern." -- The New York Times Magazine "With this novel about a young, nineteenth-century Philadelphia woman who becomes a world-renowned botanist, Gilbert shows herself to be a writer at the height of her powers." -- O, The Oprah Magazine, " Our Favorite Reads of the Year" "The most ambitious and purely imaginative work in Gilbert's twenty-year career." -- The Wall Street Journal "Like Victor Hugo or Emile Zola, Gilbert captures something important about the wider world in The Signature of All Things : a pivotal moment in history when progress defined us in concrete ways." -- The Washington Post " A masterly tale of overflowing sensual and scientific enthusiasms in the nineteenth century." -- Time, "Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year" "Raucously ingenious... a novel of brave and lovely ideas... I found unshackled joy on every page." -- The Chicago Tribune "Alma's extraordinary life unspools like a Jane Austen novel... Here Gilbert claims her rightful spot as one of the twenty-first century's best American writers." -- Outside "Gilbert writes so wonderfully it's impossible not to swoon... Alma's drive for personal epiphany feels absolutely contemporary." -- The Boston Globe "A beautifully written, grandly expansive historical novel... Gilbert's writing is so smart and richly drawn that it does what all the best books do: it sweeps you up." --Entertainment Weekly "Dazzling... a big-hearted, sweeping, unforgettable novel... If you don't think science or historical fiction can be bright, funny, and engaging, this novel will quickly prove you wrong." -- The Miami Herald
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- Apr 20, 2018
One of the best fiction novels of this century
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- Jul 09, 2019
The Signature of all things...indelibly etched the reader's psyche...
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