Author : Lawrence Norfolk
Release : 2007-12-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 437/5 ( reviews)

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Lemprière's Dictionary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lemprière's Dictionary write by Lawrence Norfolk. This book was released on 2007-12-01. Lemprière's Dictionary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Somerset Maugham Prize–winning, international bestselling debut novel: “a dazzling linguistic and formal achievement” set in 18th century London (Salman Rushdie). In eighteenth-century London, John Lempriere works feverishly on a celebrated dictionary of classical mythology that bears his name. But when he discovers a conspiracy against his family dating back 150 years, he embarks on a personal mission that will pit him against enemies he never new he had, allies he never thought he would ever want, and a destiny he never imagined . . . Told with the narrative drive of a political thriller and a Dickensian panorama of place and time, this “superbly entertaining” tale encompasses multinational conspiracies and a motley cast of scholars, eccentrics, prostitutes, assassins, drunken aristocrats, and octogenarian pirates—all brilliantly depicted across three continents and the world of classical mythology (The Washington Post).