Lempriere's Dictionary
Lawrence Norfolk
(Author)
Description
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.Product Details
Price
$15.00
$13.80
Publisher
Grove Press
Publish Date
June 13, 2003
Pages
529
Dimensions
5.51 X 1.31 X 8.24 inches | 1.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780802139870
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