A full-length portrayal of Chaucer's life and works and of fourteenth-century England examines the poets youth, his service to the king in France and Italy, his family life, and his late years, and demonstrates how his work is the key to his life
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Artikel-Nr. 052524400X-7-1-13_29
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Zustand: Good. An award-winning biography that recreates the public, private, and poetic life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry and a central man of his age Chaucer was born in the latter half of the fourteenth century, an age of revolution and devastation when Europe was convulsed by the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and the social and intellectual upheavals that marked the autumn of Feudalism. The son of a wealthy London vintner, he maneuvered his way into the turbulent courts of Edward I and Richard I, and thus, without holding noble rank himself, he was able to witness the violent drama of royal power. It was, as Howard demonstrates, the perfect vantage point for a poet. Chaucer's own poetic development from the mannered medieval style of The Book of the Duchess to the rich, comic, human complexity of The Canterbury Tales reflects the transformation of his world. With The Canterbury Tales and the darker, more formal epic Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer established English for all time as a language of literature. A thoughtful, thorough book that conjures up the living presence of England's first great poet more concretely than anybody has ever done before.--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review. Artikel-Nr. CIN052524400XG
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First printing. 6 1/2 X 9 1/2 inches. xix, 636 pages. Stated first edition on copyright page, also complete number line indicating first printing. Condition of the book is Near Fine; a very clean, tight example. Condition of the dust jacket is Near Fine; very clean and crisp, not price-clipped ($29.95). Biography stack. Artikel-Nr. 9031
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Third printing. Illustrated. Fine in a near fine glossy dustwrapper with minimal rubbing. Artikel-Nr. 277418
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. brown cloth, gilt lettering, brown papered boards, 636 pp, corners torn, Shakespeare and Co. stamp to title page Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Artikel-Nr. 87877
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