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  1. #1246 Peter Ackroyd - Chaucer: Brief Lives. Vintage Books, London, Random House, 2005, 1st Vintage edition.

    #PeterAckroyd #VintageBooks #Chaucer #GeoffreyChaucer #BookOfTheDay

  2. #1246 Peter Ackroyd - Chaucer: Brief Lives. Vintage Books, London, Random House, 2005, 1st Vintage edition.

    #PeterAckroyd #VintageBooks #Chaucer #GeoffreyChaucer #BookOfTheDay

  3. #1246 Peter Ackroyd - Chaucer: Brief Lives. Vintage Books, London, Random House, 2005, 1st Vintage edition.

    #PeterAckroyd #VintageBooks #Chaucer #GeoffreyChaucer #BookOfTheDay

  4. #1246 Peter Ackroyd - Chaucer: Brief Lives. Vintage Books, London, Random House, 2005, 1st Vintage edition.

    #PeterAckroyd #VintageBooks #Chaucer #GeoffreyChaucer #BookOfTheDay

  5. #1246 Peter Ackroyd - Chaucer: Brief Lives. Vintage Books, London, Random House, 2005, 1st Vintage edition.

    #PeterAckroyd #VintageBooks #Chaucer #GeoffreyChaucer #BookOfTheDay

  6. #GeoffreyChaucer fans, #medievalists , #EnglishLanguage and #linguists

    Around 10 years ago, a Geoffrey Chaucer parody account on ye olde Twitter (Chaucer Doth Tweet) promoted “Whan That Aprille Day” on April 1st (but it perhaps should be 17th?)

    “On the first daye of Aprille, lat us make tyme to take joye yn alle langages that are yclept ‘old,’ or ‘middel,’ or ‘auncient,’ or ‘archaic,’ or, alas, even ‘dead.’ ...

    Yn thys celebracioun we shal reade of oold bokes yn sondrye oold tonges. We shal singe olde songes. We shal playe olde playes. Eny oold tonge will do, and eny maner of readinge. All are welcome. We shal make merrye yn the magical dreamscape of 'social media,' and eke, yf ye kan do yt, yn the 'real worlde' too. ... ”

    houseoffame.blogspot.com/2015/

    #WhanThatAprilleDay 2025 anyone?

    #linguistics #medieval #language #classics

  7. From the recent boxes, the only English-language fiction there-in. It's unlikely their previous owner celebrated 4/20 veggies. Mediæval poetry & fiction, a space-age plague, & a futuristic dystopia. Classics, all!

    4/20/23 Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open containers, please.

    #DaytonOhio #BrickAndMortar #UsedBookStore #GeoffreyChaucer #CanterburyTales #MichaelCrichton #AndromedaStrain #IraLevin #ThisPerfectDay @bookstadon

  8. Change & Harmony

    “Give me some music; music, moody food Of us that trade in love.”—William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

    Once upon a time, Glorious Noise had a tagline on the homepage:

    “Rock and roll can change your life.”

    For those who were of the age of reason in September 1956—when Elvis appeared for the first time on the “Ed Sullivan Show”—and for those ...

    Read more: gloriousnoise.com/2023/change-

    #GeoffreyChaucer #Heraclitus #MusicIndustry #WilliamShakespeare #music #blog