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  • Game and Play of the Chesse

    Chess Allegories and Moral Didactics: A Medieval Literary Journey

    The anthology 'Game and Play of the Chesse' is an intriguing exploration into medieval allegory and its intersection with the cultural and literal complexities of chess. This collection, encompassing a diverse range of literary styles and voices, offers readers a profound thematic exploration of morality, strategy, and societal structure. The varied narratives within pay homage to the timeless ... Read more

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  • Echoes of Old Lancashire

    Exploring the Folklore and Traditions of Old Lancashire

    In "Echoes of Old Lancashire," William E. A. Axon masterfully evokes the rich tapestry of Lancashire'Äôs history and culture through a series of poignant essays and vivid descriptions. The narrative is woven with an engaging prose style that blends scholarly rigor with a lyrical quality, drawing readers into a bygone era filled with folklore, industrial growth, and societal shifts. Axon'Äôs work ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 7 - Delphi Series Three
    Geoffrey Chaucer, regarded by many as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, whose ‘Canterbury Tales’ helped establish the legitimacy of Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin. The first volume of Delphi Classics’ Series Three offers the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer, with ... Read more

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  • The Canterbury Tales

    The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of over 20 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century, during the time of the Hundred Years' War. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from ... Read more

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  • The Canterbury Tales

    Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman.This ... Read more

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  • Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

    by Janet Todd ...
    'Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time' New York Times'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet of the erotic ... Read more

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  • The Canterbury Tales - Original and Modernised Text by Geoffrey Chaucer - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

    Series Book 8 - Delphi Parts Edition (Geoffrey Chaucer)
    This eBook features the unabridged text Chaucer's ‘The Canterbury Tales' in the Original medieval text and a Modernised Text, from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many ... Read more

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  • The Life of Samuel Johnson

    by James Boswell ...
    In Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality. While Johnson’s Dictionary remains a monument of scholarship, and his essays and criticism command continuing respect, we owe our knowledge of the man himself to this biography. Through a series of wonderfully detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a ... Read more

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  • Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer: Including The Canterbury Tales, Troilus And Cressida And More (Mobi Collected Works)

    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of ... Read more

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  • The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

    by Walter Scott ...
    Series Book 87 - Canongate Classics
    This edition of the great Scottish author's personal journal is "truly a classic . . . compelling right to the very last unfinished sentence" ( Scotland on Sunday, UK).The celebrated 18th and 19th century Scottish author of such classics as Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Lady of the Lake delivers what many regard as his greatest work: a day-to-day account of the last six years of his life as he ... Read more

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  • Piers Plowman

    Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life. ... Read more

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  • The Weaker Vessel

    Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England

    The renowned historian and biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, investigates the lot of women in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on period diaries, letters, and other papers, Fraser sketches portraits of a variety of women, both highborn and humble, during the tumultuous century between the death of Elizabeth and Queen Anne’s assumption of the throne. More than a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD