Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
Subtitle: A Short Introduction (Blackwell Introductions to Literature)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: August 1, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780631225621
First sentence: Sometime not very long before 1344, or perhaps in 1344 (the exact year is unknown), a well-connected London wine merchant called John Chaucer celebrated the birth of his first child, a son whom he named Geoffrey.