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Chaucer / Peter Ackroyd.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-
- Series:
- Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- Ackroyd's brief lives
- Ackroyd's brief lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Poets, English--Middle English, 1100-1500--Biography.
- Poets, English.
- Poets, English--Middle English.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition in the U.S.A.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005.
- Summary:
- Profiles the eventful life of master fourteenth-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, recounting his life as a courtier, diplomat, and literary luminary, who was also indicted for rape, sued for debt, and captured in battle.
- Contents:
- The Londoner
- A courtly training
- The diplomat
- An Italian connection
- The civil servant
- The court of the boy king
- A nest of troubles
- Bloody revolt
- The affairs of Troy
- Residence in Kent
- The tales of Canterbury
- Last years.
- Notes:
- "First published in Great Britain in 2004 by Chatto & Windus"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Athenaeum copy: Sargent fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0385507976
- 9780385507974
- OCLC:
- 55131561
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