Lempriere's Dictionary by Norfolk, Lawrence - 1991

New York: Harmony Books. Fine. 1991. First Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. 0517581841 . In Fine condition. Norfolk won the 1992 Somerset Maugham Award for this debut novel that was published to rave reviews and quickly established him in the literary world. 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 publishes his classical dictionary. This much is fact. Lawrence Norfolk’s novel tells how the first two events led, inescapably, to the third.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .