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The Wife of Bath

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English

By (author): Geoffrey Chaucer

Translated by: Nevill Coghill

'Those husbands that I had,
Three of them were good and two were bad.
The three that I call good were rich and old...'

One of the most bawdy, entertaining and popular stories from The Canterbury Tales.

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Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400). Chaucer's works available in Penguin Classics are The Canterbury Tales, Love Visions and Troilus and Criseyde.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 53g
  • Dimensions: 111 x 161mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Feb 2015
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780141398099

About Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in about 1342 and is known as 'the father of English Literature'. He rose in royal employment to become a knight of the shire for Kent and a justice of the peace and was well-read in several languages and on many topics such as astronomy medicine physics and alchemy. His works include The Canterbury Tales Troilus and Criseyde and The Parliament of Fowles. He died in 1400 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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