Dan Brown

Test your English, Test 1, November 2009 - Medium

The Lost Symbol is the ________ thriller by Dan Brown.

Interactive Masonic map of Washington, DC, by Laura Stanton (link in text)

Finding the Lost Symbol: By and until - Medium

Wait until you've read Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. By the end you'll know Washington, DC, inside out. Practise coordinating places to visit there, and arrange meeting points using those confusable prepositions of time, "by" and "until".

View of the Capitol dome and one of the historic Frederick Law Olmsted lanterns. Photo courtesy Architect of the Capitol.

Exploring Washington, DC, with Dan Brown

The Washington, DC, tourism office has created a website for Dan Brown fans. And the National Museum of Women in the Arts, originally a Masonic temple, has an exhibit called "Telling Secrets: Codes, Captions, and Conundrums in Contemporary Art".

The Lost Symbol once again feature Dan Brown’s unforgettable protagonist, Robert Langdon.

The Lost Symbol is breaking records

Readers want to experience The Lost Symbol on paper, or on a Kindle from Amazon, a Reader from Sony, or listen to it on their MP3 players. The audio version — which runs to 17 hours — has become the fastest selling audio download ever.

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. Photo: Transworld Publishers.

Dan Brown talks writing

World-champion speed reader Anne Jones says she finished the 506-page thriller in just 41 minutes and 55 seconds. It looks as if Dan Brown has written a book so easy to read that The Lost Symbol will become the best-selling novel in history.

The making of The Lost Symbol

At one point in The Lost Symbol, Robert Langdon is trapped in a tank that is rapidly filling with water. Then, the villain shows him a 64-symbol puzzle.

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Today is the big day for Dan Brown fans

Judging Dan Brown by the cover of The Lost Symbol, the long-awaited sequel to The Da Vinci Code.

The story is set in Washington; the action takes place over 12 hours.

Getting ready for The Lost Symbol

Dan Brown's new thriller will have a global first print run in English of 6.5 million copies. The book trade is predicting that The Lost Symbol, featuring symbologist Robert Langdon, will be the most successful novel published since records began.

Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code is one of the most popular books of all time. This makes its author, Dan Brown, a millionaire, a superstar and the one writer who can help make the book business profitable this year.

Our Special Report looks back at The Da Vinci Code, focuses on Angels & Demons and looks forward to The Lost Symbol.

Reading, screening, kindling and scribding Hamlet

"Words don't have to be pretty to be popular"

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