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This 14th century "Tales" teller & poet penned the prose work "A Treatise on the Astrolabe" |
Chaucer
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$400 |
DJ |
AUTHORS' LESSER KNOWN WORKS |
2016-01-11 |
#7211 |
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He served 2 kings as a diplomat & lived his last year, 1399-1400, in a house in the garden of Westminster Abbey |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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$600 |
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AUTHOR-IZED BIOGRAPHIES |
2013-07-17 |
#6653 |
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"The Father of English Poetry" |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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$800 |
DJ |
AUTHORS' NICKNAMES |
1997-04-25 |
#2925 |
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This "Canterbury Tales" author was born the son of a wealthy London vintner sometime before 1343 |
Chaucer
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$200 |
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AUTHORS |
1996-05-20 |
#2711 |
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During the Hundred Years' War, this "Canterbury Tales" author fought in France & was captured |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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$200 |
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BRITISH AUTHORS |
1995-06-27 |
#2507 |
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Longfellow's sonnet about this author of "The Canterbury Tales" calls him "The Poet of the Dawn" |
Chaucer
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$200 |
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AUTHORS |
1994-07-11 |
#2286 |
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The Tabard Inn, setting of his most famous work, burned down in 1676 |
Chaucer
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$200 |
J |
AUTHORS |
1992-02-04 |
#1717 |
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This 14th-century poet has been called "The Father of English Poetry" |
Chaucer
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$1,000 |
DJ |
AUTHORS' NICKNAMES |
1991-06-21 |
#1585 |
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"Canterbury Tales" author buried in Westminster Abbey, not as an honor, but because he lived there |
Chaucer
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$200 |
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WORLD AUTHORS |
1988-12-21 |
#993 |