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In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet's...

An exploration of the influence of Italy and Italians on Chaucer's life and writing. Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures loom as large in the English literary tradition as Geoffrey Chaucer, the 14th-century poet whose vivid imagination and masterful verse transformed the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of medieval literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales presents one of the most vivid and enduring...

Penguin Classics Relaunch In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In this monumental and award-winning biography, Stanford...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew works in the English literary canon have endured as triumphantly as Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in the English language have endured as magnificently as Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales — a dazzling...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most celebrated works in the English literary canon, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales presents a vivid...

One of the great masterworks of English literature, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable...

Completely new edition of the most popular and widely-studied work of the English middle ages At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous...

This Liberty Faber Poetry Journal contains a selection of new and classic poems and over a hundred lined pages for the reader to fill as they wish. To My Dear...

David Wright's new translation of The Canterbury Tales into modern verse--the first to appear in over thirty years--makes one of the greatest works of English literature accessible to all readers...

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Both an enhanced digital edition and a handsome print volume, The Norton Chaucer provides the complete poetry and prose, meticulously glossed and annotated specifically for undergraduate readers, with apparatus reflecting...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew anthologies have shaped the English-speaking world's relationship with poetry as profoundly as The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900 — a landmark collection that chronicles...

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Traces the life and loves of the eighteenth-century French novelist and writer of operas.

Secondhand Literary Studies & Criticism Bargain Book Box SP2863 A literary critic's dream — a near-complete Pelican Guide to English Literature series alongside outstanding anthologies of English prose and verse...

Author: Nevil CoghillBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1949Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cloth cover has wear from general use, pages have foxing and previous owner and...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA gripping work of autobiographical adventure fiction, Against the Wind chronicles Geoffrey Household's remarkable...

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Poems to celebrate summer. Pour out a long drink, take a seat under a shady tree, and lose yourself in this sublime collection of nature poems for summer. From William...

"An intellectually vivid and curious collection that refuses to find simple answers to its complex questions."-NPR Books We Love "T his book is a rare comfort, a companion . ....

One of the greatest historical records of fourteenth-century England and France The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA cornerstone of medieval English literature, The General Prologue serves as the masterful opening frame to Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales,...

Author: VariousBinding: SoftbackPublished: The Masterpiece Library Review of Reviews, London, 1895Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markings20 Volumes from the Penny Poets Series - 2: Marmion:...

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Author: Marion Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman...

Shaped by the increasing commercialization of economic relations, the social agitation of the agricultural and artisan classes, and the growing formalization of status consciousness, the cultural landscape of late medieval...

Britain possesses a literary heritage which is almost unrivalled in the Western world. In this illustrated volume the richness, diversity and continuity of that tradition from Anglo-Saxon times to the...

School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of fifties English life. Nothing escapes his disaffected eye and...

An indispensable, New York Times-bestselling guide to the craft of writing from Random House's long-time copy chief and one of Twitter's leading language gurus. 'An utterly delightful book to read,...

Edition: Thin Paper Edition in One Volume Complete and Unabridged. ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingIn one of the most...

The star of this box is hiding in plain sight: all seven volumes of Boris Ford's landmark Pelican Guide to English Literature, the series that shaped how English literature was...

In Medieval Autographies , A. C. Spearing develops a new engagement of narrative theory with medieval English first-person writing, focusing on the roles and functions of the "I" as a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew works in the canon of British historiography have shaped the popular understanding of English life as profoundly as G.M....

THE WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A forensic tour de force' VIC MARKS 'Engrossing ... Illuminating detective work into the astonishing statistics of English cricket's most enduring record' ANDY ZALTZMAN...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor any lover of literature who has ever stood on a rain-swept moor and felt the ghost of Heathcliff at their shoulder, or walked the...

The first book in the Women of Ivy Manor series, about four generations of women, begins with Chloe, the daughter of a politician who comes of age in 1920s Washington...