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The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe,...
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English
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This book has been difficult to classify, for what unifies its various materials is our yearly journey through the seasons, and that is not a convention yet established in the traditions of authorship, yet it would be a mistake to classify this as fiction (though parts of it are as juicy as the best in that genre) for every word of it is true.
A closer look reveals that this isn't really a book at all: it's a luni-solar calendar. Yes, it includes...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
After being warned by a fortune-teller that their fight against legendary creatures is doomed to failure unless they have a 13th warrior, a travelling ambassador (Banderas) is given no choice but to join a group of fierce fighters.