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The luminaries, a novel, Eleanor Catton

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Eleanor Catton

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A murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries

Cover; Title Page; Welcome; Dedication; Note to the Reader; Map; Character Chart; I: A Sphere within a Sphere; Mercury in Sagittarius; Jupiter in Sagittarius; Mars in Sagittarius; Saturn in Libra; Midnight Dawns in Scorpio; Moon in Taurus, Waxing; Sun in Capricorn; Medium Coeli / Imum Coeli; True Node in Virgo; Venus in Capricorn; Conjunctions; Mercury in Sagittarius; II: Auguries; Ecliptic; Aries in the Third House; Jupiter in Sagittarius; Mercury in Capricorn; The Lesser Malefic; Sun in Aquarius; Saturn in Libra; Mars in Capricorn; Cardinal Earth; A Month Without a Moon; Venus in AquariusIII: The House of Self-UndoingMercury in Aquarius; Sun in Pisces; Saturn in Virgo; Venus in Pisces; Jupiter in Capricorn; Moon in Aries, Crescent; Mars in Aquarius; NGA Potiki a Rehua / The Children of Antares; The Greater Malefic; Equinox; IV: Paenga-wha-wha; First Point of Aries; Mercury in Pisces; Saturn Conjunct Moon; Venus is a Morning Star; Exalted in Aries; The House of Many Wishes; Crux; Combust; Mercury Sets; Sun & Moon in Conjunction (New Moon); V: Weight and Lucre; Silver; Gold; Copper; Wu Xing; Iron; Tin; Tar; Makeweights; VI: The Widow and the Weeds; Fixed Earth; Mars in CancerTe-Ra-O-TainuiAccidental Dignity; Aries, Ruled by Mars; Sun in Gemini; Scorpio, Ruled by Mars; VII: Domicile; Cancer & The Moon; The Leo Sun; Aquarius & Saturn; Jupiter's Long Reign; Inherent Dignity; The Ascendant; VIII: The Truth About Aurora; Saturn in Virgo; Jupiter in Sagittarius; Moon in Leo, New; Sun in Leo; Another Kind of Dawn; IX: Mutable Earth; Moon in Virgo, Crescent; Sun in Virgo; A Partial Eclipse of the Sun; Papa-Tu-A-Nuku; X: Matters of Succession; Detriment; Fall; The Descendant; XI: Orion Sets when Scorpio Rises; Moon in Taurus (Orion's Reach); Sun in ScorpioXII: The Old Moon in the Young Moon's ArmsThe Luminaries; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Praise for "The Luminaries"; Also by Eleanor Catton; Reading Group Guide; A conversation with Eleanor Catton; Eleanor Catton on New Zealand, the land of the long white cloud; Questions and topics for discussion; Newsletters; Table of Contents; Copyright

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