Chaucer: The Complete Poetical Works (Annotated) (Oxford Edition)

- Includes a biographical essay placing Chaucer€s work within the context of his life and times, as well as a bibliography

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), the greatest poet of the middle ages and one of the greatest ever to write in English, is considered the €œFather of English Literature€. He is best known now for his verse epic The Canterbury Tales, but this masterpiece is only a portion of his poetic achievement. Now at last readers can experience the true breadth of his genius, and read in their entirety the works that gave birth to our literature.

Lexicos Books is proud to present, for the first time in ebook format, the definitive Oxford Edition of his complete poetical works, edited by Walter W. Skeat. Published as a paper book by Oxford University Press in three volumes, it has been meticulously edited and formatted for Kindle. It includes an active table of contents and is fully searchable. It includes the complete text of The Canterbury Tales, as well as the complete text of his other great masterpiece Troilus and Criseyde.