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To the Hermitage

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To the Hermitage

To the Hermitage

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3.80 (226 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 19 May, 2000
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In October 1993 our narrator, a novelist, is invited to go to Stockholm and then to Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to as The Diderot Project. While in Stockholm he is joined by various other members of the Project -- an academic aptly named Verso whose nickname was The Encyclopaedia, and a lustful opera-singer. As we journey towards Russia we find out more about the main subject Diderot, for example how he was the son of a knife-maker in Langres who went to Paris and compiled a book that changed the world, The Encyclopaedia. In a series of dual narratives, one contemporary and one two hundred years earlier, Bradbury brilliantly recreates the climate of the eighteenth century and Diderot's journey to Russia to entertain and illuminate the mind of Catherine the Great, the most powerful monarch, whose influence could change the path of history.We learn how he could be seen as the godfather of both the modern novel and of the computer, and how there might be an extraordinary amount of missing material in St Petersburg. The Diderot Project becomes a quest to recapture Diderot's lost world, and in so doing illuminate ours.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780330376624
ISBN10 0330376624
Number Of Pages 512
Item Weight 680 g
Product Dimensions 148 x 46 x 216 mm
Publisher / Reseller Picador
Format hardback
Edition First Edition
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Malcolm Bradbury was a well-known novelist, critic and academic. He co-founded the famous creative writing department at the University of East Anglia, whose students have included Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. His novels are Eating People is Wrong (1959); Stepping Westward (1965); The History Man (1975), which won the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize; Rates of Exchange (1983), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Cuts (1987); Doctor Criminale (1992); and To the Hermitage (2000). He wrote several works of non-fiction, humour and satire, including Who Do You Think You Are? (1976), All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go (1982) and Why Come to Slaka? (1991). He was an active journalist and a leading television writer, responsible for the adaptations of Porterhouse Blue, Cold Comfort Farm and many TV plays and episodes of Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, Kavanagh QC and Dalziel and Pascoe. He was awarded a knighthood in 2000 for services to literature and died later the same year.

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