Amo Amas Amat And All That [Hardcover]

Harry Mount (Author)

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Short Books; illustrated edition edition (Nov 28 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1904977545
ISBN-13: 978-1904977544
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.4 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 381 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #389,421 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Those endless afternoons where you struggled to remember the third person singular present indicative of volo (vult) may be a long time ago. But, if you have the vaguest memory of the ablative absolute, the locative and the gerund, you mastery of Latin will spring back to life with Amo, amas, amat...and all that. In his trip through the world's most influential language, Harry Mount uncorks its magic, drawing on Latin lovers from Kingsley Amis to John Cleese, from Evelyn Waugh to Donna Tart. Read this book and you will know Latin. Know Latin and - mirabile dictu - you will know Wilfred Owen's misery, Catullus's aching heart and the comedy of a thousand bachelor schoolmasters.