The Underground Grammarian

✍ Potluri, Annapurna 📂 Fiction 🏛 Counterpoint 🌐 English ⚖ 160 KB

In the fall of 1911, Alexandre Lautens, an ambitious French philologist, sweeps into a remote part of India to study the Telugu language. Hosted by a local wealthy landowner and his family, Lautens arrives at a moment of change for the Adivis: Mohini, the younger and strikingly beautiful daughter is

The Grammarian

✍ Potluri, Annapurna 📂 Fiction 🏛 Counterpoint 🌐 English ⚖ 160 KB

In the fall of 1911, Alexandre Lautens, an ambitious French philologist, sweeps into a remote part of India to study the Telugu language. Hosted by a local wealthy landowner and his family, Lautens arrives at a moment of change for the Adivis: Mohini, the younger and strikingly beautiful daughter is

The Grammarians

✍ Schine, Cathleen 📂 Fiction 🏛 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB

**An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language.** From the author compared to Norah Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language. *The Grammarians* are Laurel and Daphn

The Grammarians

✍ Cathleen Schine 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 MacMillan Audio; Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar 🌐 en-US ⚖ 239 KB

"The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always boun

The Monkey Grammarian

✍ Paz, Octavio 📂 Fiction 📅 1990 🏛 Skyhorse Publishing Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

Hanumān, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology, is the protagonist of this dazzling narrative--a mind-journey to the temple city of Galta in India and the occasion for Octavio Paz, the celebrated Mexican poet and essayist, to explore the origin of language, the nature of

Thomas Hayward, Grammarian

✍ Vivian Salmon 📂 Article 📅 1959 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 763 KB