The Good Wife of Bath - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Good Wife of Bath write by Karen Brooks. This book was released on 2021-07-01. The Good Wife of Bath available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Who would you believe? 'Brooks' mischievous retelling [of Chaucer's The Wife of Bath] dials up the feminist themes - and the fun - to 11.' The Canberra Times England, The Year of Our Lord, 1364 When married off aged 12 to an elderly farmer, Eleanor Cornfed, who's constantly told to seek redemption for her many sins, quickly realises it won't matter what she says or does, God is not on her side - or any poor woman's for that matter. But Eleanor was born under the joint signs of Venus and Mars. Both a lover and a fighter, she will not bow meekly to fate. Even if five marriages, several pilgrimages, many lovers, violence, mayhem and wildly divergent fortunes (that swoop up and down as if spinning on Fortuna's Wheel itself) do not for a peaceful life make. Aided and abetted by her trusty god-sibling Alyson, the counsel of one Geoffrey Chaucer, and a good head for business, Eleanor fights to protect those she loves from the vagaries of life, the character deficits of her many husbands, the brutalities of medieval England and her own fatal flaw... a lusty appreciation of mankind. All while continuing to pursue the one thing all women want - control of their own lives. This funny, picaresque, clever retelling of Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath' from The Canterbury Tales is a cutting assessment of what happens when male power is left to run unchecked, as well as a recasting of a literary classic that gives a maligned character her own voice, and allows her to tell her own (mostly) true story. 'Astonishingly good - an instant classic. Certes 'tis a tale for everywoman.' Tea Cooper, Bestselling International Author
The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation
The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation write by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 2012-03-27. The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.
The Wife of Bath
The Wife of Bath - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wife of Bath write by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 2012-11-26. The Wife of Bath available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Wyves Tale of Bathe and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale.
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale write by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 2016-05-19. The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.
The Wives of Bath
The Wives of Bath - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wives of Bath write by Susan Swan. This book was released on 2012-06-05. The Wives of Bath available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Swan’s international bestselling novel The Wives of Bath, is both a shocking Gothic tale about a murder in a girls’ boarding school and an adolescent confession. Mouse and Paulie, reluctant fourteen-year-old boarders at Bath Ladies College, are confronted by the slippery quest for one small, vital thing: the thing that definitively makes boys different from girls. The novel was made into the feature film Lost and Delirious, shown in 34 countries. Since the film’s debut, young women all over the world have role-played the parts of Mouse, Tory and Paulie on the Lost and Delirious website.
