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January 22, 1996
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The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer by Derek Pearsall, Blackwell pounds 9.99. Chaucer is one of the half-dozen greatest English writers, yet, as Pearsall acknowledges, we have a very partial knowledge of his life, leading biographical imaginations to run riot. In onelegend he is a 14th-century Voltaire or Sartre, hobnobber with the mighty and progenitor of great events. Another version sees Chaucer as a man of the people, rising from pigsty to palace on the wings of his ...

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