Living With a Dead Language : : my Romance With Latin
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After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored, she decided to challenge her word-loving brain through studying Latin at local colleges. Her study opened unexpected windows into her life, and along the way, she met an impassioned group of professors, students and classicists outside of academia who keep Latin very much alive. Written with humor, heart, and an infectious enthusiasm for words, Patty's book is an object lesson in how learning and literature can transform the past and lead to an unexpected future. -- adapted from book jacket.
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PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Viking, [2016]
Year Published: 2016
Description: x, 242 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781101980224
1101980222
SUBJECTS
Patty, Ann.
Latin language -- Study and teaching.
Classicists -- Biography.
Biographies.