THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHAUCER
by John Gardner
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394493176
- ISBN 13
- 9780394493176
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition, 4th Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. J. Wolf (Illustrations & Calligraphy). Text/Bright, clean, AS NEW. Gilt embossed wine linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; trace edge & surface wear; under mylar. Upper text edge dyed blue; light spotting (acidic paper reaction) to text blocks. Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343 - 1400), widely regarded as the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, and as the "Father of English literature". He was also admired as a philosopher and astronomer, while maintaining a career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat, and being crucial in legitimising the literary use of the Middle English vernacular when the dominant literary languages in England were still French and Latin. 328 pgs in 9 chapters. A spirited & lively biography of a very rich & lively life. Author John Gardner (1933 - 1982), an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor, was also a veteran Middle English scholar and translator.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019621
- Title
- THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHAUCER
- Author
- John Gardner
- Illustrator
- J. Wolf (Illustrations & Calligraphy)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 4th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394493176
- ISBN 13
- 9780394493176
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Biography/History/Literature/Medieval England
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; Memoir;
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