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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