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“A delightful mix of grammar and growth, words and wonder.” – The Washington Post An entertaining exploration of the richness and relevance of the Latin l
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Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-12 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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A lively exploration of the joys of a not-so-dead language From the acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini, a personal and passionate look at th
The Lake of Dead Languages
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Carol Goodman
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-27 - Publisher: Ballantine Books

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“A gothic and elegant page-turner.”—The Boston Globe Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terribl
Trying to Live with the Dead
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Hi, I'm Alexis Delaney. I'm your average 17-year-old girl. Except I can see the dead. And talk to the dead. And push them away and, well, help them move on. So.
On the Death and Life of Languages
Language: en
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Authors: Claude Hagège
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Twenty-five languages die each year; at this pace, half the world’s five thousand languages will disappear within the next century. In this timely book, Claud