Lempriere's Dictionary

[Joe Allonby]

You know, I might just do this. Oh, no! I'm a geek!


On 7/28/05, Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
>