The Canterbury Tales

Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in about 1342, and is known as 'the father of English Literature'. He rose in royal employment to become a knight of the shire for Kent and a justice of the peace, and was well-read in several languages and on many topics, such as astronomy, medicine, physics and alchemy. His works include The Canterbury Tales , Troilus and Criseyde and The Parliament of Fowles . He died in 1400 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Klappentext Paperback edition of Ackroyd's retelling of Chaucer's classic work, now with an introduction and notes by Ackroyd. Zusammenfassung From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, this title includes tales which can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London.

Product details

• Authors: Ackroy, Pete Ackroyd, Peter Ackroyd, Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer
• Assisted by: Nick Bantock (Illustration), Peter Ackroyd (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780141442297
• ISBN: 978-0-14-144229-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Classics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Classic fiction: general and literary