num_pages: 432
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: English
title: Lemprière's Dictionary
titlecomplete: Lemprière's Dictionary
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, British Literature, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Unfinished, Mythology
ratings_count: 1209
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Grove Press