Lemprière’s Dictionary (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Lawrence Norfolk
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Setting: England and France
- Principal Characters: John Lemprière, Juliette Casterleigh, Jacques, Captain Guardian, Septimus, Lord Casterleigh
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Incest, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Revenge, Mysteries, Monarchy
- Locales: France, England
Lemprière’s Dictionary is an unusual novel; it is an intellectual tour de force that uses the styles and structures of a number of different narrative types. There is, for example, the quest plot which is an intellectual mystery in the manner of Umberto Eco; there is the Dickensian style (and world) of many of the middle sections of the novel; there are the interrelationships between classical myth and modern life; there is a pirate chase; and, finally, there is a love story. The central element of this farrago is the quest of the main character, John Lemprière, for the...
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