The Widow's Son (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles) - Softcover

Wilson, Robert Anton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558021779 ISBN 13: 9781558021778

Publisher: Lynx Books, 1989

Synopsis

Throughout history, secret societies have played a crucial role in shaping events that have created our world. Only an inner circle of power elite know the full extent of the influence of the conspiracy...It is Paris, 1772, and Sigismundo Celine knows he is destined to play an important part in this history-behind-history. The masons, the English nobility, the Jabobites, the Rosicrucians, the ruling clique of pre-Revolution France: these are but a few of the factions involved in the machinations and intrigue in which Sigismundo has become enmeshed.Thrown into the Bastille, shot at, assaulted by assassins, tortured, and brutally interrogated, he knows only what he is and what he must do to become the one spoken of in the old texts. But what he doesn't know could kill him: the secret powers of Maria, the Italian beauty who has become an English Lady; the Irish fisherman, Moon, who stumbles across the inner workings of an unsuspected cult; and the question they keep asking: the identity of The Widow's Son.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Anton Wilson is the coauthor (with the late Robert Shea), of the underground classic The Illuminatus! Trilogy which won the 1986 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. His other writings include Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, called "the most scientific of all science fiction novels" by New Scientist, and many nonfiction works of Futurist psychology and guerilla ontology. Wilson, who sees himself as a Futurist, author, and stand-up comic, regularly gives seminars at Esalan and other New Age centers. Wilson has made both a comedy record (Secrets of Power), and a punk rock record (The Chocolate Biscuit Conspiracy), and his play, Wilhelm Reich in Hell, has been performed throughout the world. His novel Illuminatus! was adapted as a 10-hour science fiction rock epic and performed under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Great Britain's National Theatre, where Wilson appeared in a special cameo role. He is also a former editor at Playboy magazine.

Review:

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

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

The real history of Western Civilization, where our heroes (and anti-heroes), the Illuminati, roam the night. --Jonathan Sellers, Antiquities of the Illuminati

About this edition

• Publisher: Lynx Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 1558021779
• ISBN 13: 9781558021778
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 392