Chaucer's tale : 1386 and the road to Canterbury
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Chaucer's tale : 1386 and the road to Canterbury
（Penguin books, . Biography/Literature）
Penguin, 2015
- : pbk
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"First published in the United States by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2014"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-277) and index
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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.
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