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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 · 268,676 ratings · 7,111 reviews · 1,841 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 225,372 ratings — published 1400 — 1551 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 — 8,190 ratings — published 1986 — 11 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 3.76 avg rating — 6,856 ratings — published 1385	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) 3.60 avg rating — 4,271 ratings — published 1372 — 70 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 3.78 avg rating — 1,688 ratings — published 1390 — 51 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) 3.94 avg rating — 1,563 ratings — published 1387	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 — 1,557 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 Miller's Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny (Editor) 3.56 avg rating — 1,598 ratings — published 1372 — 37 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 — 1,283 ratings — published 1390 — 8 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
	General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales 3.57 avg rating — 955 ratings — published 1400 — 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

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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

1564 likes

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

tags: creativity, learning, time

260 likes

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

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Polls

2014 Third Quarter Long Read Elimination Poll

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

20 votes, 12.3%

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

17 votes, 10.4%

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

15 votes, 9.2%

The Iliad by Homer

13 votes, 8.0%

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

12 votes, 7.4%

Middlemarch by George Eliot

11 votes, 6.7%

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

10 votes, 6.1%

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9 votes, 5.5%

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

9 votes, 5.5%

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

5 votes, 3.1%

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

5 votes, 3.1%

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

5 votes, 3.1%

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

5 votes, 3.1%

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

4 votes, 2.5%

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

4 votes, 2.5%

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

4 votes, 2.5%

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

3 votes, 1.8%

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

3 votes, 1.8%

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

2 votes, 1.2%

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

2 votes, 1.2%

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

2 votes, 1.2%

U.S.A. by John Dos Passos

1 vote, 0.6%

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

1 vote, 0.6%

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

1 vote, 0.6%

A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

0 votes, 0.0%

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

0 votes, 0.0%

The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

0 votes, 0.0%

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

0 votes, 0.0%

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

0 votes, 0.0%

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

0 votes, 0.0%

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