Lempriere's Dictionary: A Novel by Lawrence Norfolk

Lempriere's Dictionary: A Novel

Lawrence Norfolk

432 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction historical mystery challenging mysterious tense slow-paced
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"An important and inspiring novel."VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENTIt 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 bizar...

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