description: 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.
language: German
title: Lempriere's Wörterbuch.
titlecomplete: Lempriere's Wörterbuch.
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Unfinished, British Literature, Historical, Historical Fiction, Mythology, Fantasy, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 1209
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Btb Bei Goldmann