Harry Mount

Hard times | 4 September 2014

Why are the greatest schools in literature so steeped in Gothic severity? By <em>Harry Mount</em>

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Harry Mount

Harry Mount is editor of The Oldie and author of How England Made the English (Penguin) and Et Tu, Brute? The Best Latin Lines Ever (Bloomsbury)

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