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The Crying of Lot 49

  • Thomas Pynchon

3.50

38 ratings

Oedipa Maas, executor of the will of Pierce Inverarity, journeys through a bizarre underground of secret societies, jazz clubs, beatniks, and her own psyche. Readers accustomed to postmodern literature will revel in Pynchon's second novel.

Genres

  • Administration of estates
  • Married women
  • Fiction
  • open_syllabus_project
  • Long Now Manual for Civilization
  • Translations into English
  • Odysseus (Greek mythology)
  • Poetry
  • Greek Epic poetry
  • Odyssea
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Married people, fiction
  • California, fiction
  • Administration successorale
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Femmes mariées
  • Fiction in English
  • 1960s
  • psychedelia
  • Trystero
  • posthorn
  • Open Library Staff Picks
  • United states. congress (36th, 1st session : 1859-1861). house.
  • Politics and government
  • E436 .m87
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About the author

  • Thomas Pynchon

    born 8 May 1937

    3.70

    104 ratings · 30 works

Editions

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    Tusquets

    Nov 03, 2014

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    Ithaki Yayinlari

    Mar 26, 2018

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    Ithaki Yayinlari

    Nov 04, 2014

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    Seuil

    June 2, 2000

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Seuil

1987

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    Tusquets, Tusquets Editores S.A.

    January 2002

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    Rowohlt Tb.

    January 1, 1994

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    Turtleback Books, Brand: Turtleback

    Oct 17, 2006

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    Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    Apr 22, 2014

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    Perfection Learning

    Jan 01, 2010

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    Bantam Books

    1967

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    Harper Perennial

    November 3, 2009

  • Edition cover

    1st Perennial fiction library ed.

    Perennial Library

    1986

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    Buccaneer Books

    May 1997

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    1st Perennial fiction library ed.

    Perennial Library, HarperPerennial

    2006

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    Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    April 1, 1999

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    New Ed edition

    Vintage Classics

    June 6, 1996

  • Edition cover

    Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    April 1, 1999

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    Vintage Classics

    June 6, 1996

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    Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    November 7, 2006

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    Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    November 7, 2006

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    Cheshmeh

    2022

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    Seuil

    1989-04-01

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    J. B. Lippincott

    1966-01-01

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    Lippincott

    1966

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    "Simpozium"

    2000

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    Bantam Books

    March 1983

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    Borgo Press

    June 1991

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    Bantam

    1980

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    Penguin Random House

    2010

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    Penguin Random House

    2009

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    Penguin Random House

    2009

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    HarperCollins Publishers

    2023

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    Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing

    Aug 26, 2005

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    Lippincott

    1966

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    Bantam Books

    1972

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    J. Cape

    1967

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    1974

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    Bantam Books

    1967

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    Lippincott

    1966

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    Picador

    1979

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    Penguin

    1974

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    Tandem Library

    April 1999

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    Bantam

    1965

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    Bantam Windstone edition

    Bantam Books

    1982

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  • Edition cover

    [1st ed.]

    Lippincott

    1966

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    Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media

    October 2000