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Reading Greek - Text and vocabulary

The joint association of classical teachers' Greek course

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First published in 1978, "Reading Greek" has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in...

O Frabjous Day!

Lewis Carroll

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'I cried, "Come, tell me how you live!" And thumped him on the head.' Conjuring wily walruses,...

Salman Rushdie recommended Riddley Walker in Books (curated)

Riddley Walker

Russell Hoban | 2012 | Contemporary, Science Fiction/Fantasy

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"This unjustly forgotten 1980 novel is unlike anything else: Its portrait of a world after a nuclear holocaust — the explosion of the “1 Big 1″ — is written in language that’s brilliantly fractured, as if a bomb has exploded there as well."

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Lupita Nyong'o recommended An Exaltations of Larks in Books (curated)

An Exaltations of Larks

James Lipton | 1993 | Education

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"A book on collective nouns that I read from often, and I wish more people knew about it. I am madly in love with collective nouns! They make language so colorful and ticklish. I love throwing them into casual conversation."

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Jun 21, 2021

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Alan Hollinghurst recommended The Major Works in Books (curated)

The Major Works

Gerard Manley Hopkins | 2009 | Fiction & Poetry, Religion

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"Another teenage passion I have not outgrown but grown into, even if I have lost the faith that sustained him through good and ill. One of the great hearers, feelers, and observers, with a passionate language world all his own."

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Jeanette Winterson recommended Orlando in Books (curated)

Orlando

Virginia Woolf | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

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"It begins, “He, for their could be no doubt about his sex…” and then we spend the rest of this gorgeous rollicking novel entirely in doubt about his sex. A love-letter to language, a time traveling duel with duality."

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