Overview:

Lemprií¨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 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.

Category		Subject
Fiction		Historical

ISBN 13:9780802139870
ISBN 10:0802139876
Format:Softcover
Language:English
Pages:530
Size:8.24" l x 5.51" w x 1.36" h
Ages:
Grade Lvl: Non-Classifiable