Lempria]re's Dictionary - Softcover

Norfolk, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802139876 ISBN 13: 9780802139870

Publisher: Black Cat, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"[A] formidably learned novel...an extraordinary achievement."

"[This] is an engrossing and wonderfully intricate extravaganza."

Book Description:

A seductive puzzle that wends its way through history, politics, literature and the yearnings of the human heart...

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Cat
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0802139876
• ISBN 13: 9780802139870
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 529