Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

by John M. Bowers

Book Overview

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose, and though never completed, its 160 pages of commentary reveals much of his thinking about language and storytelling when he was still at the threshold of his career as an epoch-making writer of fantasy literature. Drawing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198842678
• ISBN13: 9780198842675
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"