| Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury Contributor(s): Strohm, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143127837 ISBN-13: 9780143127833 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - History | Europe - Medieval - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2014004523 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.50 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A lively, concise biography of the father of English literature and the tumultuous year that led to The Canterbury Tales At the beginning of 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer--lauded today as the father of English literature--was a middle-aged Londoner with a modest bureaucratic post; his literary successes had been confined to a small audience of intimate friends. But by year's end, he was swept up in a series of disastrous events that would ultimately leave him jobless, homeless, separated from his wife, and exiled in the countryside of Kent. Unbroken by these worldly reversals, Chaucer pursued a new life in art. In this highly accessible social history, Paul Strohm, one of the finest medievalists of our time, vividly recreates the bustle of everyday life in fourteenth-century London while he unveils the fascinating story behind Chaucer's journey from personal crisis to rebirth as the immortal poet of The Canterbury Tales. |