Lempriere's Dictionary - Couverture rigide

Norfolk, Lawrence

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1856190536 ISBN 13 : 9781856190534

Editeur : Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

A novel which blends history with fiction and crime with reality.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 pirates through two centuries and three continents to the brink of French Revolution.

John Lemprière reluctantly enters this world as an introverted scholar, obsessed by the myths of antiquity. At the end of this astonishing story he understands that it takes far more than learning to lay the ghosts of the past to rest.

Présentation de l'éditeur

"An important and inspiring novel."
VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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....

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856190536
• ISBN 13: 9781856190534
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 536
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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