Canterbury Tales - Hardcover

Chaucer, Geoffrey: - Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, courtier, diplomat, civil servant, and one of the central figures in the development of English literature. Born in the 1340s, he served in royal and administrative positions while writing poetry that drew on French, Italian, Latin, and English traditions. His work helped establish English as a major literary language at a time when much high-status writing in England still looked strongly toward Latin and French.Chaucer's major works include The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Canterbury Tales. His genius lies in voice, character, irony, social range, and his ability to bring many kinds of medieval storytelling into a single lively frame. The Canterbury Tales remains his most famous work and one of the foundations of English literary history, valued for its humour, realism, poetic skill, and unforgettable portrait of a society in motion.