The Wives' Tales

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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Geoffrey Chaucer, Zadi Smith, Zadie Smith
• Editore: Hamish Hamilton
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780241471951
• ISBN: 978-0-241-47195-1
• Pagine: 128
• Dimensioni: 138 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Letteratura contemporanea (dal 1945); Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; London, Greater London, Translation & interpretation, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 1154 to c 1485 (Plantagenet and Angevin period), Middle English, DRAMA / Medieval