by Peter Ackroyd · Vintage Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099287483
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«Chaucer» is the brief biography of Geoffrey Chaucer by Peter Ackroyd, published by Vintage Books in paperback (144 pages, in English).
Geoffrey Chaucer was a courtier of Edward III and a protégé of John of Gaunt; he held posts such as controller of customs, knight of the shire for Kent and royal forester, and traveled on diplomatic missions through France and Italy. Ackroyd recreates the medieval world of London and Kent and presents The Canterbury Tales as Chaucer's great work.
It is the first volume in Peter Ackroyd's «Ackroyd's Brief Lives» series. The original edition was published in 2005.
For readers of medieval English literature, English history and writers' biographies: a brief, well-documented approach.
Peter Ackroyd is an English novelist, biographer and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. He is noted for his "technically innovative novels", the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research.
