Description
Product ID: | 9780141392875 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Early Fiction in England |
Subtitle: | From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer |
Authors: | Author: Laura Ashe |
Page Count: | 464 |
Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Gathering extracts from the texts of the period by Wace, Marie de France, Chaucer and others, this volume offers an absorbing and surprising introduction to the earliest fiction in England. A brilliant new anthology that shows how fiction was reinvented in the twelfth century after an absence of hundreds of years. Essential for all students of medieval literature, Early Fiction in England includes extracts by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, Marie de France, Chaucer and many others, in new translations and with illuminating introductions. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-09-24 |