Lempria]re's Dictionary

An international best-seller and winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize, Lemprieres 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 beats 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.

Author: Lawrence Norfolk
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 06/13/2003
Pages: 529
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.51w x 1.31d
ISBN13: 9780802139870
ISBN10: 0802139876
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Literary