Chaucer: Brief Lives [Audiobook] download free by Peter Ackroyd
- Listen audiobook: Chaucer: Brief Lives
- Author: Peter Ackroyd
- Release date: 2005/5/9
- Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780099287483
- Rating: 8.73 of 10
- Votes: 499
- Review by: Adrian Reed
- Review rating: 8.23 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/25
- Duration: 2H27M37S in 256 kbps (38.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-13
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA Lossless, AIFF, WAV, MPEG4, FLAC, WMA, MP3 (compression ZIP, CBC, RAR, ALZ, TBZ2, BZ2, ISO)
- Total pages original book: 192
- Includes a PDF summary of 16 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 12M20S (3.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of his comedy behind. In truth a great deal is known of him. He was a royal servant, who was indicted for rape. He was captured in battle and held for ransom. He knew at first hand the most powerful people in the country and, as the king's servant; he was concerned with the most pressing events of the realm. Yet even in this crowded life he found time and opportunity to write some of the finest poems in the language. Troilus and Criseyde is the first modern work of English literature. His genius was prolific and diverse and, while he was a true London artist, he was also part of the European renaissance of learning. The Canterbury Tales is an epic of Englishness itself, presided over by the genial and generous figure of Geoffrey Chaucer.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval, Biography: General, Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets, Biography: Historical, Political & Military
- Download servers: Uploaded, FileServe, Hightail, 4Shared, Torrent. Compressed in ZIP, CBC, RAR, ALZ, TBZ2, BZ2, ISO
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 6.61 USD
- Dimensions: 128x196x18mm
- Weight: 199.58g
- Printed by: VINTAGE
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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