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Author | : Lawrence Norfolk |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 861 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802199437 |
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The Somerset Maugham Prize–winning, international bestselling debut novel: “a dazzling linguistic and formal achievement” set in 18th century London (Salman Rushdie). In eighteenth-century London, John Lempriere works feverishly on a celebrated dictionary of classical mythology that bears his name. But when he discovers a conspiracy against his family dating back 150 years, he embarks on a personal mission that will pit him against enemies he never new he had, allies he never thought he would ever want, and a destiny he never imagined . . . Told with the narrative drive of a political thriller and a Dickensian panorama of place and time, this “superbly entertaining” tale encompasses multinational conspiracies and a motley cast of scholars, eccentrics, prostitutes, assassins, drunken aristocrats, and octogenarian pirates—all brilliantly depicted across three continents and the world of classical mythology (The Washington Post).
Author | : Lawrence Norfolk |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780802139870 |
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Murder, intrigue, and historical detail are woven into an epic tale of greed and revenge set against a backdrop of classical mythology.
Author | : John Lemprière |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Classical dictionaries |
ISBN | : 9780946495122 |
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Author | : John Lemprière |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Classical dictionaries |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lawrence Norfolk |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1408831163 |
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In the remote village of Buckland, a mob chants of witchcraft. It is 1625, and John and his mother are running for their lives. Taking refuge among the trees of Buccla's Wood, John's mother opens her book and begins to tell her son of an ancient Feast kept in secret down the generations. Little does he know that one day, to keep hold of all that he holds most dear, he most realize his mother's vision - he must serve the Saturnall Feast.
Author | : John Lemprière |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 938 |
Release | : 1827 |
Genre | : Classical dictionaries |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Lemprière |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 675 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Classical dictionaries |
ISBN | : 9780710017345 |
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First published in 1788 under title: Bibliotheca classica.
Author | : Donna Gillespie |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2006-11-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780425212684 |
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Auriane, warrior maiden of the Chattian tribe, was sworn to remove the cursed Romans from the lands of the Rhine. Then fate intervened: she was captured, brought to Rome in chains, and trained to fight in the arenas as a gladiator - only to fall in love with a Roman aristocrat, Marcus Arrius Julianus, and become his wife. Marcus and Auriane have lived in tranquility for years but, without his knowledge, Auriane is a traitor to Rome. Plundering her husband's coffers for nearly a decade, Auriane has provided her people with enough wealth to arm themselves. Now, Auriane's betrayal has been discovered, and if her duplicity reaches the Roman authorities, her life - and the lives of her family - will be forfeit.
Author | : Lawrence Norfolk |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993-08-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345384237 |
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"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....
Author | : Lawrence Norfolk |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 1014 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802199429 |
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“The acclaimed author of Lemprière’s Dictionary furnishes another richly textured romp steeped in history, legend, and excitement.” —Booklist The Pope’s Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history’s most bizarre chapters: the sixteenth-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for Pope Leo X. In February 1516, a Portuguese ship sank off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora de Ajuda had sailed fourteen thousand miles from the Indian kingdom of Gujarat. Her mission: to bribe the “pleasure-loving Pope” into favoring expansionist Portugal over her rival Spain with the most exotic and least likely of gifts — a living rhinoceros. Moving from the herring colonies of the Baltic Sea to the West African rain forest, with a cast of characters including an order of reclusive monks and Rome’s corrupt cardinals, courtesans, ambassadors, and nobles, The Pope’s Rhinoceros is at once a fantastic adventure tale and a portrait of an age rushing headlong to its crisis. “An exhausting banquet of a book . . . One of the most original, energetic, and ambitious novels of recent years.” —Kirkus Reviews “Mr. Norfolk’s heady originality and intellectual energy are apparent on every page.” —The New York Times Book Review