The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen/ Bradbury, Malcolm/ Bigsby, Christopher

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 aptly named Verso (also known as The Encyclopedia), 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...