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Polyglot
$35.00
The Game of International Languages "...a game which will enable you, your family and friends to develop a greater intimacy with foreign languages." "Elevate your command of English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Yiddish

C1920 Freetown Jamaica Polyglot Kalima Mahomedan
$19.25
c1920 FREETOWN JAMAICA POLYGLOT KALIMA MAHOMEDAN A Page and reverse from People of All Nations, their life story today and the story of their past captured in numerous photographs edited by J A Hammerton .Countries include Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Annam, Arabia, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belgian Congo, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bokhara, brazil, British empire in Africa, and the British empire in America. Dates c 1920 size of each page is approx 9.5 x 6 inches (240 x 150) all are genuine prints and not copies.

Adventures of a Polyglot: My Life in Two Worlds
$19.95
A cosmopolitan par excellence, Giovanna Sodi Phillips takes the reader through the tragicomic adventures of her vivid life. From a Tuscan childhood shared with a younger brother, their American musician mother, their Italian officer father and a succession of French au-pairs, she leads us through her years at a strict Swiss convent, her adolescence at the often hilarious Liceo Dante in Florence, through romances at Smith College to two years in Rome¡Çs fascinating diplomatic world, culminating in her ¡Èmarriage miracle.¡É The author¡Çs portrayal of life in New York as a ¡Èmuseum wife¡É with three children brings on a new cast of characters: the curators, collectors and dealers in the couple¡Çs social set, and the foreign help ¡Èat home¡É who involve the family in their own often touching, at times heart-rending sentimental adventures. More colorful encounters await us when the author and her husband move to Palm Beach. Here she creates Les Girls, a group of women from different countries, missing their own habitat and ¡Èbecoming American¡É together. The association is currently fifty nations strong and quite unique. Each episode of this multicultural life has the vivid, humorous, and heartwarming detail to make the book an unforgettable experience.

The Polyglots (Prion Lost Treasures)
$13.99
A comic masterpiece by one of the most influential, highly praised English novelists of the 20th century.