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Classical Greek: A New Grammar – Latin: A New Grammar

The Importance of Being Earnest ... in Ancient Greek and Latin
Translation of Oscar Wilde's original text, with vocabulary help

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One of Oscar Wilde's most well-known theatre pieces, translated into Ancient Greek and Latin for all those who have already got a sound knowledge of either language


Title: The Importance of Being Earnest ... in Ancient Greek and Latin
Subtitle: Translation of Oscar Wilde's original text, with vocabulary help
ISBN: 978-0-9571387-7-3
Number of pages: 251
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The book features the following characteristics:

• ORIGINAL TEXT: Translated directly from Oscar Wilde’s original English text.
• PRIMARY AND SECONDARY COLUMN ON EACH PAGE: Primary column containing the text, secondary column containing many notes to help with
   vocabulary, difficult grammatical constructions, etc.
• VOCABULARY NOTES … ALSO IN GREEK/LATIN: All notes given in the secondary column are written in Greek/Latin, thus allowing the reader to remain
   immersed in the language itself.
• INTRODUCTION (IN ENGLISH): The vocabulary choices and the techniques that have been followed both for the translations and for the notes in the
   secondary column are clearly explained in the Introduction (in English).


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The printed book is available ONLY in the several Amazon sites (.co.uk, .com, .de, etc.), the price has been left as low as possible, as it is supposed to be a book for students; moreover, you can download it as a pdf here for free. Please observe the usual terms that accompany any Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License, which means, among other things, that you may not attribute this work or part of it to another author and that you may not use it for commercial purposes.

                                    Links for the cover (a screenshot of the whole front and back cover) and for the text itself (in pdf format):

                                    For the cover          (a screenshot):     click HERE
                                    For the text itself     (a pdf):                 click HERE



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