piatiknizhie in English

[Oleg Pashuk]

Pentalogy
There are 172,000 hits on Google for the term "pentalogy."
A very good explanation of its meaning is given at this site:

Pentalogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sep 21, 2009 ... A pentalogy is a compound literary or narrative work that 
is made up of five (numerical prefix penta-) distinct works, just as a 
trilogy is ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentalogy

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From: "George Hawrysch" <zolotar at INTERLOG.COM>
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Subject: [SEELANGS] piatiknizhie in English


> What might be a good way to render the term
> пятикнижие (piatiknizhie) into English with
> reference to, say, the novels of Dostoevsky?
> "Pentateuch" is out, obviously. Other ideas?
>
> George Hawrysch
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