Geoffrey Chaucer
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath. The Wife of Willesden follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road. Wearing fake gold chains, dressed in knock-off designer clothes, and speaking in a...
Author
Series
Modern library of the world's best books volume 161
Pub. Date
[between 1900 and 1999]
Language
Middle English
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