The Liar's Dictionary A Novel

Eley Williams, Kristin Atherton, Jon Glover

eAudio - 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book ReviewAn award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world.Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement.In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby...’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual... more