Lempriere's Dictionary
Lawrence Norfolk
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Description for Lempriere's Dictionary
Paperback. While tending to his father's business affairs, John Lempriere, a young scholar, 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. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 450. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
As the seventeenth century opens, a band of venturers forms the Honourable Company of Merchants trading from England to the East Indies. In France, the siege of La Rochelle ends with the massacre of thirty thousand men, women and children. Almost two centuries later, in 1788, John Lemprière published his classical dictionary. This much is fact. Lawrence Norfolk tells us how the first two events led, inescapably, to the third.
This amazing tale encompasses the Great Voyages of Discovery and multinational financial conspiracies, and leads a motley cast of scholars and eccentrics, drunk aristocrats and whores, assassins and octogenarian ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749398194
SKU
KAC0002016
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Lawrence Norfolk
Lawrence Norfolk was born in London in 1963. He read English at King's College, London, graduating in 1986. He began teaching, studied for a Ph.D., and worked as a freelance writer on a number of reference books, contributing articles and reviews to magazines and journals including the Times Literary Supplement. He has written three novels; Lemprière's Dictionary, Pope's Rhinoceros and ... Read more
Reviews for Lempriere's Dictionary
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more