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.
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 Good Wife of Bath
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
De nuptiis
De nuptiis - 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 De nuptiis write by Ralph Hanna. This book was released on 1997. De nuptiis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The three medieval texts that make up Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves have formed a vital part of Chaucerian research for more than half a century. Integrated here for the first time, these texts now form a cornerstone volume of the Chaucer Library series. Near the end of her prologue, Chaucer's Wife of Bath tells how her fifth husband, Jankyn, a clerk of Oxford, taunted her by reading from a collection of antifeminist tracts. The contents of Jankyn's book include three texts that enjoyed wide distribution in the later Middle Ages: Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii," Theophrastus's "De Nuptiis," and Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum." The first two are reproduced in their entirety in this volume, with selections from the third. The editors examine Jankyn's book from many angles, including the extensive manuscript sources from which it may be reconstructed, background information for its literary appreciation, and Chaucer's use of the materials. The publication of this volume, the fourth in the Chaucer Library, represents a major event for medievalists.
Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales - 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 Canterbury Tales write by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 1903. Canterbury Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
