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Geoffrey Chaucer

Born

London, Kingdom of England, The United Kingdom

Died

October 16, 1400

Genre

Fiction, Poetry

Influences

Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri ...more

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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey. Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son, Lewis. He maintained a career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, and member of parliament.
Among Chaucer's many other works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde. He is seen as crucial i ...more

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Geoffrey Chaucer’s books

Average rating: 3.56 · 284,126 ratings · 8,009 reviews · 1,217 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Canterbury Tales 3.53 avg rating — 237,371 ratings — published 1400 — 2038 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry Dean Benson (Editor), F.N. Robinson (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 8,206 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Troilus and Criseyde 3.75 avg rating — 7,197 ratings — published 1385 — 389 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer, Peter G. Beidler (Editor) 3.59 avg rating — 4,759 ratings — published 1372 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Canterbury Tales: A Selection 3.76 avg rating — 1,855 ratings — published 1390 — 134 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Miller's Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny (Editor) 3.55 avg rating — 1,817 ratings — published 1372 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer, David Laing Purves (Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 1,595 ratings — published 1387 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Canterbury Tales: Nine Tales and the General Prologue (Norton Critical Editions) 3.76 avg rating — 1,562 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Canterbury Tales: Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer, V.A. Kolve (Editor), Glending Olson (Editor) 3.96 avg rating — 1,284 ratings — published 1390 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Canterbury Tales: The First Fragment by Geoffrey Chaucer, Michael Alexander (Editor) 3.49 avg rating — 1,110 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Geoffrey Chaucer

Macmillan's Pocket English Classics (1 book)
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Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer (?)

“Patience is a conquering virtue.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

tags: canterbury-tales, chaucer, franklin-s-tale, patience

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“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds

tags: creativity, learning, time

266 likes

“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

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Polls

December 2014 Old School Classic Poll

Which book would you like to read for our December 2014 Old School Classic Group Read?

104, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 56 pages

37 votes, 24.7%

1856, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages

33 votes, 22.0%

1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages

21 votes, 14.0%

1842, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages

19 votes, 12.7%

1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 654 pages

9 votes, 6.0%

1390, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 504 pages

9 votes, 6.0%

1848, La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, 256 pages

7 votes, 4.7%

1787, Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 432 pages

6 votes, 4.0%

1782, Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 448 pages

5 votes, 3.3%

1841, The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper, 576 pages

4 votes, 2.7%

150 total votes

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