Chaucer´s Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury
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Hersteller: | Penguin Us; Penguin Books (Strohm, Paul) |
Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
A lively, concise biography of the father of English literature and the tumultuous year that led to The Canterbury Tales At the beginning of 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer-lauded today as the father of English literature-was a middle-aged Londoner with a modest bureaucratic post; his literary successes had been confined to a small audience of intimate friends. But by year´s end, he was swept up in a series of disastrous events that would ultimately leave him jobless, homeless, separated from his wife, and exiled in the countryside of Kent. Unbroken by these worldly reversals, Chaucer pursued a new life in art. In this highly accessible social history, Paul Strohm, one of the finest medievalists of our time, vividly recreates the bustle of everyday life in fourteenth-century London while he unveils the fascinating story behind Chaucer´s journey from personal crisis to rebirth as the immortal poet of The Canterbury Tales .
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