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"Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" are two great Brooklyn novels.

The new stagings of "On the Town" and "The Fortress of Solitude" fall short in opposite ways.

Speaking of tedious, Jonathan Lethem's career has never quite regained the heights of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude.

New Yorker Jonathan Lethem, 48, found success with the novels Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude.

Lethem, the author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude," shares passages in his creative life.

Nearby in the Kyrenia Mountains are the 13th-century abbey of Bellapais and the fortress of St . Hilarion

After the Russo-Persian war broke out in 1826, he seized the military initiative from the Persians and captured the fortress of Erivan (Yerevan; October 1827) and was rewarded with the title count of Erivan.

In ad 943 Varangian, or Russified Norse, adventurers had sailed down the Caspian from the Volga River and captured the fortress of Bärdä.

In 1747 he invaded Holland, defeated an allied army in the Battle of Lauffeld near Maastricht (July 2), and captured the fortress of Bergen-Op-Zoom.

"We have returned to the Mount, to the cradle of our nation's history, to the land of our forefathers, to the land of the Judges, and to the fortress of David's dynasty," Dayan said.

At the head of a large army, he invaded Byzantine territory and sacked the fortress of Charsianon.