To the Hermitage
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ISBN: 1585672564 / Publisher: Overlook Books, April 2002
When a novelist responds to an invitation to participate in the "Diderot Project," he discovers that the enigmatic group is more influential than he imagined. Reprint.
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In October 1993, a novelist is invited to goto Stockholm and Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to asthe Diderot Project. In Stockholm he is joined by various other members of theproject—including an academic, a lustful opera singer, and a Swedish diplomat.On the journey to Russia more is revealed about the great Enlightenment writerDenis Diderot—the son of a knife maker in Langres, who went to Paris andcompiled the Encyclopedia, a book that changed the world.
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