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Have you ever found yourself irritated when a sine qua non or
a mea culpa is thrown into the conversation by a particularly annoying
person? Or do distant memories of afternoons spent struggling to learn
obscure verbs fill you with dread?
Never fear! (or as a Latin show-off might say, Nil Desperandum!)
In this delightful guided tour of Latin, which features everything from a
Monty Python grammar lesson to David Beckham's tattoos and all the best
snippets of prose and poetry from 2000 years of literary history, Harry
Mount wipes the dust off those boring primers and breathes life back into
the greatest language of them all.
About the Author
Harry Mount read Classics at Oxford and was a Latin tutor before becoming a journalist. He has been a leader-writer and New York correspondent at the Daily Telegraph. His memoir of his time as a barrister's pupil, My Brief Career, is also published by Short Books --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Have you ever found yourself irritated when a sine qua non or
a mea culpa is thrown into the conversation by a particularly annoying
person? Or do distant memories of afternoons spent struggling to learn
obscure verbs fill you with dread?
Never fear! (or as a Latin show-off might say, Nil Desperandum!)
In this delightful guided tour of Latin, which features everything from a
Monty Python grammar lesson to David Beckham's tattoos and all the best
snippets of prose and poetry from 2000 years of literary history, Harry
Mount wipes the dust off those boring primers and breathes life back into
the greatest language of them all.
About the Author
Harry Mount read Classics at Oxford and was a Latin tutor before becoming a journalist. He has been a leader-writer and New York correspondent at the Daily Telegraph. His memoir of his time as a barrister's pupil, My Brief Career, is also published by Short Books --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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