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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. 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. |
| System details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: Kindle Book. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
| Subject |
Lemprière, John, 1765?-1824 -- Fiction.
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Mythology, Classical -- Historiography -- Fiction.
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Lexicographers -- Fiction.
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Conspiracies -- Fiction.
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Mythologists -- Fiction.
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London (England) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9780802199430
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0802199437
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| STANDARD # |
90957BE0-85C5-4089-85DE-D355212A8E77 OverDrive |
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