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Geoffrey Chaucer, Zadi Smith, Zadie Smith

The Wives' Tales

English · Hardback

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Description

The 'father of English literature' Geoffrey Chaucer meets the 'voice of new England' Zadie Smith

'Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.
She plays many roles round here. And never
Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether
Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife
Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life
Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . .'

A riotous "North Wheezian" translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Prologue.

About the author

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel.

Summary

Product details

Authors	Geoffrey Chaucer, Zadi Smith, Zadie Smith
Publisher	Hamish Hamilton

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	31.10.2021

EAN	9780241471951
ISBN	978-0-241-47195-1
No. of pages	128
Dimensions	138 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
Subjects	Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945) Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics London, Greater London, Translation & interpretation, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 1154 to c 1485 (Plantagenet and Angevin period), Middle English, DRAMA / Medieval

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