Lempriere's Dictionary

[Dustin Iler]

My American copy is 574 pages in length. Owl Press, I think.

>From: Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Lempriere's Dictionary
>Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:45:46 -0400
>
>This is a book I took from the library, read a few pages and then bought
>a copy, but then never went back and read it. I want to get around to it
>one of these days.
>
>Interestingly, a friend told me that the British edition is significantly
>longer than the American and I just did some surfing and can verify that
>the American edition had 422 pages while the British 530.  Evidently
>Random House thought there was some "fat" that needed to be trimmed.
>
>So here's your challenge, Joe.  Find the British edition and read it and
>report on what was left out!
>
>Toby
>
>
>On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:00:06 -0500 owner-pynchon-l-digest at waste.org
>(pynchon-l-digest) writes:
> >
> > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:41:05 -0400
> > From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Lempriere's Dictionary
> >
> > Have any P-listers read this Lawrence Norfolk novel? Lots of
> > Pynchon
> > allusions including a character called O'Trystero and lots of
> > conspiracy stuff surrounding British East India Company.
> >