Peter Ackroyd

Chaucer

Brief Lives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. He knew at first hand the most powerful people in the country and, as the king's servant; Yet even in this crowded life he found time and opportunity to write some of the finest poems in the language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 131mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 188g
• ISBN-13: 9780099287483
• ISBN-10: 009928748X
• Artikelnr.: 13742077

Autorenporträt

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.