During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father, but is now mainly known as a poet and ‘the father of English literature’, a postion to which he was raised by other writers in the generation after his death. It was Boccaccio’s Decameron which inspired Chaucer, in the 1390s, to begin work on...
Opowieści Canterbury
To zbiór 20 opowiadań z czasów średniowiecznej Anglii dotyczących wędrówek pielgrzymów. Każdy z nich opowiada swoją historię.
A group of pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller should tell a story.
Read about tales by the Knight, the Nun’s Priest, the Pardoner, the Wife of Bath and the Franklin.
