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Geoffrey Chaucer of England
by Marchette Gaylord Chute
recommended to Chris by:
used book sale near the Round Tower
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Geoff Chaucer – football hooligan! Well, maybe but somehow it warms my heart to know that badly behaving football fans are a historic tradition in England. It is very fitting that Chaucer might have been one. After all, he writes about farting. Chute...more |
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This is, like the Kirkus review indicates, a charming book. I hadn't expected much. Indeed, I'd picked this up years ago at Second Hand Prose, the Chicago Public Library's old bookstore in the Lincoln Square neighborhood--lamentably, now gone. The...
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As Virgil guided Dante, Marchette Chute guides the reader through the life, times, and poetry of Geoffrey Chuacer. This is an informative and entertaining journey. I guarantee you will enjoy and look forward to reading some of Chaucer's work with...
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A highly readable biography of Chaucer.
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| The period of German history between the World Wars is one that most Americans, myself included, really no nothing about. There are the basic facts of inflation and the economic hardship that get mentioned when professors are explaining the raise of...more | |
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More Ghosts of Gettysburg: Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places of the Battlefield
by Mark Nesbitt (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
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| More of a history lesson, which is fine. Nesbitt would be make a good history teacher. Very nice photos as well. | |
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| A really good collection of fairy and folktales. While there are some better known tales in the collection, such as "East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon", many of the tales are not as well known. The stories come from all over the globe. While tale...more | |
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― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Letter from C. Lupine (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
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updated Feb 10, 2013 02:08pm
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Mr Lupine writes a letter.
Thankfully for Goodreads (Nonfiction)
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updated Dec 13, 2012 02:32pm
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see title
annoyed (Nonfiction)
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updated Nov 03, 2012 02:09pm
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Well, you see the title don't you?
Star Wars (Nonfiction)
More of Chris’s writing…
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updated Jul 31, 2012 05:33pm
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Inspired By Crystal Starr Light's excellent blogs about the movies.
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