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Geoffrey Chaucer has 1793 books on Goodreads with 576298 ratings. Geoffrey Chaucer’s most popular book is The Canterbury Tales.
Dryden's Palamon and Arcite Geoffrey Chaucer and John Dryden 102 downloads. Cjantaclàr e Partelote (Friulian) Geoffrey Chaucer 55 downloads. Displaying results 1–14. Project Gutenberg offers 73,770 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's magnum opus.
Among Chaucer's many other works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde. He is seen as crucial in legitimising the literary use of Middle English when the dominant literary languages in England were still Anglo-Norman French and Latin. [4] .
See all books authored by Geoffrey Chaucer, including Tales of Caunterbury, and Chanticleer and the Fox, and more on ThriftBooks.com.
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1343 - 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
Among his many works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women and Troi. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.
Look out, Bocaccio -- there's a new author of clever, bawdy rhyming tales, and his name is Geoffrey Chaucer! Whether you're a reeve, abbot, or just a simple canon's yeoman, you're sure to find something delightful in this witty, incisive collection.
Feb 4, 2003 · by Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Nevill Coghill (Editor, Translator, Introduction) 4.6 2,425 ratings. See all formats and editions. Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English. A Penguin Classic.
May 30, 2024 · Geoffrey Chaucer (born c. 1342/43, London?, England—died October 25, 1400, London) was the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare and “the first finder of our language.” His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English.
