Chaucer and His EnglandMethuen & Company, 1908 - 321 Seiten No book of this size can pretend to treat exhaustively of all that concerns Chaucer and his England; but the author's main aim has been to supply an informal historical commentary on the poet's works. - Preface to the first edition. |
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