📚 CHAUCER SCHOLARLY LOT (3 Books) - Oxford Guide, Cambridge Companion, Strohm

📚 A superb three-book Chaucer studies library — combining a compelling narrative biography, the definitive critical guide to The Canterbury Tales , and an authoritative multi-essay scholarly companion. Together these three titles span the personal, the textual, and the critical dimensions of Chaucer and his greatest work, making this an outstanding lot for literature students, Chaucer scholars, medieval literature enthusiasts, and university course instructors. Rarely does one lot bring together the biography, the text guide, and the critical companion in such complementary form.

Books Included in This Lot:

📚 Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury by Paul Strohm At the beginning of 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer — lauded today as the father of English literature — was a middle-aged Londoner with a modest bureaucratic post; his literary successes had been confined to a small audience of intimate friends. But by year's end, he was swept up in a series of disastrous events that would ultimately leave him jobless, homeless, separated from his wife, and exiled in the countryside of Kent. Unbroken by these worldly reversals, Chaucer pursued a new life in art. Called "a thrilling book" by The New Yorker and praised by James Shapiro as bringing Chaucer's turbulent England to vivid life. Written by one of the finest medievalists of our time, formerly J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English at Oxford.

📚 Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Second Edition) by Helen Cooper Since its first publication in 1989, Helen Cooper's guide to The Canterbury Tales has established itself as the standard work on the poem. This second edition continues to offer the most comprehensive scrutiny of the Tales both as a whole and individually, incorporating the most significant recent scholarship and criticism. Called by Studies in the Age of Chaucer "the first book on The Canterbury Tales to consult after reading the text itself." Written by Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge.

📚 The Cambridge Chaucer Companion edited by Piero Boitani & Jill Mann (Cambridge University Press) The Cambridge Chaucer Companion contains a series of essays by internationally known Chaucer experts, designed to provide a challenging introduction to the poet. The collection is divided between pieces which concentrate on one or more of Chaucer's major poems and pieces of wider scope giving more general information about his literary sources and historical background — establishing a context for Chaucer, discussing the significance of his position within it, and applying detailed and frequently innovative analysis to his poetry. Called "an impressive volume forming a compendium of authoritative critical opinion" by Literature and History .