To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury
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.
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780330376624 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330376624 |
| Title | To the Hermitage |
| Author | Malcolm Bradbury |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2000-05-19 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
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