{"product_id":"9780571314966","title":"Reading Chaucer's Poems: A Guided Selection","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as  the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill  and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from  which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope,  Austen, Dickens among them. A courtier, a trade emissary and diplomat, he fought in the  Hundred Years War and was captured and ransomed; his marriage into the  family of John of Gaunt ensured his influence in political society. For  more than a decade, he was engaged on his most famous work of all, \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, until his death around 1400; there is no record of the precise date or the circumstances of his demise, despite vivid and colourful speculation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernard O'Donoghue is one of the country's leading poets and  medievalists. His accessible new selection includes a linking commentary on the  chosen texts, together with a comprehensive line-for-line glossary that  makes this the most approachable and accessible introduction to Chaucer  that readers can buy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124425769200,"sku":"9780571314966","price":21.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571314966_p0.jpg?v=1763719870","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571314966","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}