Chaucer's Tale by Paul Strohm

Chaucer's Tale by Paul Strohm

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.

Paul Strohm has taught medieval literature at Columbia University and was the J. R. R. Tolkien Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University. He and his wife live in New York City and Oxford, England.

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ISBN 13	9780670026432
ISBN 10	0670026433
Title	Chaucer's Tale
Author	Paul Strohm
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2014-11-13
Number of pages	304
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