Over the last decade, there has been a minor Latin revival, but it is a watered-down version of the language that has been revived. Rigorous Latin lessons are as dead as can be, except in a handful of grammar schools and private schools. So N.M. Gwynne is entering upon virgin territory with this timely guide to learning Latin properly. A former businessman and now a Latin tutor, he had a smash hit last year with Gwynne’s Grammar , a rigorous guide to English grammar. Now he’s applied the same winning formula to the most influential language of them all – The Spectator * The Spectator *
This little book makes a great case for learning Latin, not least because of the countless Latin words and phrases in our daily English – The Independent on Sunday * The Independent on Sunday *

Mr. Gwynne is a passionate educator who believes in old-fashioned values and that keen and close study is the only way to become an enlightened and better person. Now living in County Wexford, Ireland, and in his 70s, N M Gwynne was formerly a successful businessman in London and Australia. On retirement in the 1980s, he took up teaching and soon found that his traditional methods, universal up to the 1960s, had become all but unique. Subjects he has been teaching include English, Latin, Greek, French, German, mathematics, history, classical philosophy, natural medicine, the elements of music, and “How to start up and run your own business”. He has taught all over the world and thanks to the internet and Skype, he has sometimes found himself teaching as far apart as India, Europe and western USA in a single day.

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