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Canterbury Tales (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Paperback. The Canterbury Tales tells the story of a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, and travel together to visit the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury cathedral. The tavern host, who accompanies them, suggests that they amuse one another along the way by telling stories. Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 42. Weight in Grams: 480.
During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father, but is now mainly known as a poet and ‘the father of English literature’, a postion to which he was raised by other writers in the generation after his death. It was Boccaccio’s Decameron which inspired Chaucer, in the 1390s, to begin work on The Canterbury Tales, which was still unfinished at his death in October 1400. It tells the story of a group of 30 pilgrims who ... Read more
During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father, but is now mainly known as a poet and ‘the father of English literature’, a postion to which he was raised by other writers in the generation after his death. It was Boccaccio’s Decameron which inspired Chaucer, in the 1390s, to begin work on The Canterbury Tales, which was still unfinished at his death in October 1400. It tells the story of a group of 30 pilgrims who ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wordsworth
Number of pages
768
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Wordsworth Poetry Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
768
Place of Publication
Herts, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840226928
SKU
V9781840226928
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