An anonymous buyer funded the purchase of the book for France. An extremely rare 1477 first edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s "Canterbury Tales" sold for $7.5 million in 1998 to the highest bidder, the ...

6. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, $7.5 million The Canterbury Tales is the first-ever surviving work of English, making it a must-read for every literature historian. The first edition of ...

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“The Canterbury Tales,” written by Geoffrey Chaucer, was the first book to be printed in English in England, said Andrew Julo, director and curator of the center. It is not an easy rea ...

Books are fragile things ... of local archeological materials in the city's State United Museum. Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written in the Middle Ages, is one of the first English ...

A leading university has provoked fury for putting a 'ludicrous' trigger warning on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury ... If you are going to read a book about a pilgrimage, then the Christian ...

The book, published in May, involves a sequence set in Alice ... of “absurd censorship”; while Margaret Atwood paraphrased a ...

She has written extensively on Geoffrey Chaucer and medieval authors including Langland, Malory and the Gawain-poet. Her most recent book is Feminizing Chaucer (2002). You are now leaving the ...

Nottingham University in England has ignited a debate after issuing a trigger warning on Geoffrey Chaucer’s renowned work, “The Canterbury Tales.” The warning informs students of the religious content ...

This study demonstrates how Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland ... to English literary history through well-chosen and deftly analyzed examples. One of the book's greatest strengths is its vigorous, ...

Chaucer's coat of arms is painted twice on the monument ... for earthly glories die away, read this monument". Geoffrey's son Thomas died in 1434 and is buried in Ewelme Church in Oxfordshire with his ...

He has worked on some valuable books over the years, including a math primer used by George Washington; an early copy of Noah Webster’s dictionary; and a rare collection of Geoffrey Chaucer’s ...