The Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Book of the Duchess

Geoffrey Chaucer with E. B. Richmond (Translator)

94 pages first pub 1368 (editions)

fiction classics poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A charming and absorbing dream-poem, 'The Book of the Duchess' is the earliest of Chaucer's major works, traditionally read as an allegorical elegy for Blanche of Lancaster, John of Gaunt's first wife.

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