To the Hermitage
by By Bradbury, Malcolm
Category: Fiction , Historical , General

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.