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While compiling his massive dictionary of classical myths in eighteenth-century London, John Lempriere uncovers shocking information about his father's recent death and his real family. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.
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"Historical fiction of mesmerizing complexity... It is a masterpiece" (Daily Mail)
"A love story and a story of fantastic adventure, it is also a hugely comic novel" (Sunday Times)
"A dazzling linguistic and formal achievment" (Salman Rushdie)
"Poised, superbly inventive and gripping. With Lemprière's Dictionary the precocious author has catapulted himself into the premier league of English fiction writing" (Observer)
"Extravagantly spectacular...myriad wonders and pleasures abound....superbly entertaining" (Washington Post)
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"A love story and a story of fantastic adventure, it is also a hugely comic novel" (Sunday Times)
"A dazzling linguistic and formal achievment" (Salman Rushdie)
"Poised, superbly inventive and gripping. With Lemprière's Dictionary the precocious author has catapulted himself into the premier league of English fiction writing" (Observer)
"Extravagantly spectacular...myriad wonders and pleasures abound....superbly entertaining" (Washington Post)
A seductive puzzle that wends its way through history, politics, literature and the yearnings of the human heart...
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- PublisherHarmony Books
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0517581841
- ISBN 13 9780517581841
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