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Secondhand book for saleDerek Pearsall.
The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography.
Published Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies, no. 1.
ISBN 1557862052;
ISBN-13: 9781557862051.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: T.J. Press, Padstow.
Size: 155x234x26mm.
Page count: xii,365pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy is a bit scuffed and ruffled, especially at the edges and corners, and its spine is partly faded; the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.
This item £10.00
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Publisher’s price for paperback £29.99/€36.00]
Weight without packaging: 669g.
Contents: Intro. — writing a life of Chaucer; Beginnings, c.1340-60; Early career, the 1360s; Advances — the 1370s; Fame, 1380-86; Reversals, new beginnings — 1386-91; Renewal — the 1390s; Epilogue.
Appendix: The Chaucer portraits.Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 21, monochrome
Maps & plans: 2
Genealogies: 4
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 4pp
Index: yes
See also | Chaucer |
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