Lempria]re's Dictionary (Paperback, 1st Grove Press ed)

An international best-seller and winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize, Lempriere's Dictionary is the debut novel from Lawrence Norfolk, one of England's most innovative, internationally acclaimed young authors. In eighteenth-century London, John Lempriere works feverishly on a celebrated dictionary of classical mythology that bears his name. He discovers a conspiracy against his family dating back 150 years. Told with the narrative drive of a political thriller and a Dickensian panorama of place and time, this astonishing tale encompasses the Great Voyages of Discovery, multinational financial conspiracies, and a motley cast of scholars and eccentrics, drunken aristocrats, whores and assassins, and octogenarian pirates, all brilliantly depicted across three continents and the world of classical mythology.

General

Imprint:	Black Cat
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2003
First published:	June 2003
Authors:	Lawrence Norfolk
Dimensions:	209 x 140 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	529
Edition:	1st Grove Press ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8021-3987-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	0-8021-3987-6
Barcode:	9780802139870

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