The Rationalist is a brilliant, dark and powerful work of literature, cool and rational on the surface, but charged with erotic danger and game-playing. Its central figure is the enigmatic Dr. Silas Grange, a respected small-town physician in 18th-century England, who, to all appearances, is in superb control of his emotions - a deeply rational man who lives by a firmly fixed routine. Grange's orderly life seems beyond reproach - until he is summoned by a mysterious and beautiful widow, Mrs. Quill, who gradually draws him into her world and casts over the rationalist doctor a powerful spell. The hapless Grange - in thrall to his long-repressed sexual desires and romantic instincts - falls in love with the glamorous widow, then with her daughter, only to find that Mrs. Quill's household is not at all what it seems, and that he has been led into a dangerous game from which there is no escape, a game in which he is at once the victim and the bait.... Superbly written, profoundly disturbing, with the narrative force of a great suspense story, The Rationalist reads like an 18th-century Damage or an English Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

0671869396 corners bumped, light edge wear to boards, dust jacket has some scuffing and creasing on the inside front flap; The Rationalist is a brilliant, dark and powerful work of literature, cool and rational on the surface, but charged with erotic danger and game-playing. Its central figure is the enigmatic Dr. Silas Grange, a respected small-town physician in 18th-century England, who, to all appearances, is in superb control of his emotions - a deeply rational man who lives by a firmly fixed routine. Grange's orderly life seems beyond reproach - until he is summoned by a mysterious and beautiful widow, Mrs. Quill, who gradually draws him into her world and casts over the rationalist doctor a powerful spell. The hapless Grange - in thrall to his long-repressed sexual desires and romantic instincts - falls in love with the glamorous widow, then with her daughter, only to find that Mrs. Quill's household is not at all what it seems, and that he has been led into a dangerous game from which there is no escape, a game in which he is at once the victim and the bait.... Superbly written, profoundly disturbing, with the narrative force of a great suspense story, The Rationalist reads like an 18th-century Damage or an English Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

0714530336 ex-library with usual markings and mylar jacket cover; some light edge wear, some dings to boards; On a California campus in the early years of the twenty-first century, Professor Enzo Yakuda is on the verge of retirement. Although he is a Zen Buddhist, a lifetime's thought and study have led not to inner calm, but to an obsession which begins to haunt him and take over his life. Yakuda believes that the self-repair function of Computer One, the international civil computer network which runs just about everything on the planet, will cause an inevitable confrontation with mankind. His nightmare, however, is that in raising the alarm about this hidden danger, he will inevitably precipitate the annihilation of the entire human race.

Condition: Good +. :: Further Information: Silas Grange prides himself on keeping his appetites under perfect control. But ,when the young doctor is summoned by a mysterious, voluptuous widow named Celia Quill, he finds himself falling under her influence… 323pp. ::

Condition: Very Good+. :: Further Information: 319pp. ::