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To the Hermitage

In a series of dual narratives, one contemporary the other set 200 years earlier, Malcolm Bradbury recreates the climate of the 18th century and Diderot's journey to Russia to entertain and illuminate the mind of Catherine the Great.

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  • "More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA."
  • "In a series of dual narratives, one contemporary the other set 200 years earlier, Malcolm Bradbury recreates the climate of the 18th century and Diderot's journey to Russia to entertain and illuminate the mind of Catherine the Great."@en
  • "In October 1993, a novelist is invited to go to Stockholm and Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to as the Diderot Project. In Stockholm he is joined by various other members of the project-including an academic, a lustful opera singer, and a Swedish diplomat. On the journey to Russia more is revealed about the great Enlightenment writer Denis Diderot-the son of a knife maker in Langres, who went to Paris and compiled the Encyclopedia, a book that changed the world. In alternating narratives, Bradbury brilliantly recreates the climate of the eighteenth century-as Diderot journeys to Russia at the behest of Catherine the Great for discussions on the nature of the late-18th-century world-as well as the twentieth century academic milieu. "An exuberant, enchanting literary valedictory." (Washington Times "To the HermitageThe Independent on Sunday)."@en
  • ""It is 1773, and philosopher Denis Diderot, art critic, theater critic, impresario of L'Encyclopedie is summoned to St. Petersburg, where he hopes to enlighten the espotic Catherine the Great on reason and liberty. Though the crafty empress lures him to her Winter Palace, the Hermitage, she seems more interested in buying him impressive personal library than adopting the liberal reforms he suggests."--Jacket."
  • ""It is 1773, and philosopher Denis Diderot, art critic, theater critic, impresario of L'Encyclopedie is summoned to St. Petersburg, where he hopes to enlighten the espotic Catherine the Great on reason and liberty. Though the crafty empress lures him to her Winter Palace, the Hermitage, she seems more interested in buying him impressive personal library than adopting the liberal reforms he suggests." -- Jacket."

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  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Translations"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "To the Hermitage"@en
  • "To the Hermitage"
  • "V Ėrmitazh! : roman"
  • "Sto dromo gia to Ermitaz : ena mythistorēma"
  • "V Ermitazh! : [roman]"
  • "To the hermitage"@en
  • "To the hermitage"
  • "To The Hermitage : a novel"
  • "В Эрмитаж! : [роман]"

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