✨Sách - The Ingenious Language - Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Will Schutt (UK edition, paperback)

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Publisher: Independent Alliance

Origin: United Kingdom (Imported)

ISBN 13: 9781787701830

Condition: Brandnew

Binding: paperback

Pages: 176

Dimensons: 198 x 132 x 30 | 400 (gram)

“It is to the Greeks that we turn when we are sick of the vagueness, of the confusion, of our own age.”—Virginia Woolf

Discover a new passion for a very old language, a language that can express what can’t be said in any other, and thrillingly relevant to our lives today. A language that rewards desire by giving its own modal verb; bequeaths lovers a special case beyond singular and plural; prioritises mindfulness and dynamic presence through its very own grammar. A language that can transform our relationship to time and to those around us.

A love song to the language of the greatest poets, philosophers, adventurers, lovers, and generals that ever lived. In Marcolongo’s words: “Greek has been the longest and most beautiful romance of my life.” Whether or not readers are familiar with ancient Greek, they will find Marcolongo’s boundless enthusiasm for her subject utterly infectious.

It may well be Greek to you, but in Marcolongo’s international bestselling book you’ll discover nine reasons to be happy it is. Review Quote“A delightfully spirited yet succinct apologia for “the magnificent and elegant ancient Greek language”.” Review Quote “Joyous, superb and exuberant, The Ingenious Language by Andrea Marcolongo is an irrepressibly compelling, playfully erudite and deliciously charming celebration of Greek. Everyone should read it.”

Review QuoteAciman mentions THE INGENIOUS LANGUAGE as the first book on his nightstand and says “The Ingenious Language, by Andrea Marcolongo, who loves ancient Greece and gives antiquity a new, very modern face.” Review Quote“A love story about a language, and its ability to affect our senses.” Review Quote“Marcolongo writes about ancient Greek in a new, non-academic way. Her aim is to excite our interest for a language that today seems more alive and necessary than ever, because of its ability to ‘tell complex things with simple, true, and honest words’.” Review Quote“The Ingenious Language is a love letter which aims to the dispel the dread that surrounds ancient Greek.” It may well be Greek to you, but in Marcolongo’s international bestselling book you’ll discover nine reasons to be happy it is.