Author: Lawrence Norfolk Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Award winners, Mystery, Fantasy
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ISBNs: 9780517581841 9780802139870 0517581841 0802139876 |
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It is 18th-century London and John Lempriere, a young scholar, is writing a dictionary of classical mythology in an attempt to exorcise the demons raised by his father's violent and bizarre death. While tending to his father's business affairs, Lempriere discovers a 150-year old conspiracy that has kept his family from its share of the fabulously wealthy East India Company. But as John begins to untangle the years of mystery and deceit, people begin to die, in ways that mirror the very myths he is researching....
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.
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