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Format: Paperback
Pages: 656
Edition: 3Rev ed of "Age of Chaucer: With an Anthology of Medieval Poems"
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 27 May 1982

ISBN 10: 0140222642
ISBN 13: 9780140222647

Author Bio
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in about 1342. He was valued highly by Edward III, who paid part of his ransom when he was captured fighting in France in 1360. He rose in royal employment, becoming a Justice of the Peace and was buried in 1400 in Westminster Abbey.