Chaucer - A European Life

An acclaimed biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English writers

About the author

Marion Turner

Summary

One of The Times' Best Literary Non-Fiction Books of 2019 One of the Sunday Times' Best Literary Books of 2019 Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biography and Autobiography, Association of American Publishers One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2019 Winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The British Academy

Additional text

"One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2020"

Product details

• Authors: Marion Turner, Turner Marion
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780691210155
• ISBN: 978-0-691-21015-5
• No. of pages: 624
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; England, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literature: history & criticism, Biography: writers, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval