The Tower of Babel is the third novel in Frederica's Quartet, considered perhaps the magnum opus of Dame Antonia Susan Byatt of the Order of the British Empire. The tetralogy was written over a quarter of a century, and its plot also spans a quarter of a century, with the first two novels (The Lady in the Garden, The Living Thing) coming out before the Booker Prize-winning international bestseller Possess, and the third and fourth after. So, Frederica Potter - a former Yorkshire schoolgirl and Cambridge graduate, and now the wife of a Herefordshire squire - escapes with her young son from her tyrant husband from his Bran House estate and finds herself in London of the 1960s, which is about to transform into a psychedelic "swinging" London". There she is surrounded by rebel artists, writers and poets. The story of a single mother, who makes a living by teaching at an art school and literary criticism, is interspersed with chapters of a “novel within a novel” called “The Tower of Balabon” and the transcripts of two trials - over this book, accused of insulting public morals, and in Frederica’s lawsuit against divorce. “Byatt resurrects a legendary decade in exuberant and impeccably authentic completeness. Someday historians will be grateful to Lady Antonia for such generosity, but readers can thank us now” (Boston Review). For the first time in Russian!