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Lemprière's Dictionary
1st Grove Press Edition
Paperback (13 Jun 2003)
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780802139870 |
Publisher: | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Imprint: | Grove Press |
Pub date: | 13 Jun 2003 |
Edition: | 1st Grove Press Edition |
DEWEY: | 823.914 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 529 |
Weight: | 725g |
Height: | 209mm |
Width: | 139mm |
Spine width: | 33mm |