WILLIAM CAXTON’S ORIGINAL WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS FROM1483,THE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM 1532 AND EXTRACTS FROM THE CHAUCER TEXT OF 1561. COMPILED, ANNOTATED AND WITH MODERN VERSIONS OF THE CHAUCER TEXTS Meet the most famous characters of the English Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer’s pilgrims from The Canterbury Tales. All the original woodcuts depicting them from the 1400s and 1500s […]
The author attended the Ivy League Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, during the years 1922-1924. During that time he got free lodging in the house of Professor David Lambuth, Head of the English Department, in return for acting as a butler and making himself useful about the house. This brought him into close daily […]
Red-Headed Woman was a sensational best-seller, and it is believed that during the height of the Great Depression, the author earned more than a million dollars in royalties from it. It was made into the film Red-Headed Woman (1932) with Jean Harlow playing the role of the anti-heroine Lillian Andrews, who in the book is […]
Orpheus was the legendary singer and lute-player, taught by the Greek god Apollo himself, who could enchant everyone who listened to him. Birds and animals would gather round him to listen to the beauty of his music. Orpheus’s mother was Calliope, the chief Muse of Greek Mythology, who also presided over Greek epics, which originally […]
This important work appears here in English for the first time in nearly a century, it is one of the most moving testaments we have from a writer in prison.
