A CASE OF CURIOSITIES (N)

Title: A CASE OF CURIOSITIES

Author: ALLEN KURZWELL

Publisher: A HARVEST BOOK HARCOURT, INC. | YR: 1992

Book Cover: PAPERBACK | Page: 360

A Case of Curiosities is a historical novel by Allen Kurzweil, published in 1992. It is a bawdy, intricate, and intellectually playful story set in late 18th-century France, on the eve of the French Revolution.

^{The novel's central character is Claude Page, a young country boy of exceptional artistic and mechanical genius. The story is presented as the "chronicle of a life" (memento hominum), which is traced through the contents of a mysterious old box, or "case of curiosities," purchased at a Paris auction.}