![]() The story follows Nell's development under the tutelage of the Primer, and to a lesser degree, the lives of Elizabeth and Fiona, girls who receive similar books. At the age of four, Nell receives a stolen copy of an interactive book, Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: a Propædeutic Enchiridion in which is told the tale of Princess Nell and her various friends, kin, associates, originally intended for an aristocrat's child in the Neo-Victorian New Atlantis phyle. ![]() The protagonist in the story is Nell, a thete (or person without a tribe equivalent to the lowest working class) living in the Leased Territories, a lowland slum belt on the artificial, diamondoid island of New Chusan, located offshore from the mouth of the Yangtze River, northwest of Shanghai. The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a 1995 novel with post- cyberpunk and Neo-Victorian elements by Neal Stephenson. ![]()
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