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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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• Full title: Chaucer's Tale
• Subtitle: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury
• Author: Paul Strohm
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780143127833
• ISBN: 0143127837
• ID: 09272866
• Publisher: Penguin US
• Weight: 258 g
• Dimensions: 137 × 205 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. October 2015

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