The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Marvels

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer MarvelsDesigner, social reformer, and writer William Morris (1834 96) was a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and a towering figure of Victorian artistic and cultural history. Inspired by the hand presses of the fifteenth century, Morris established the Kelmscott Press to publish books of his own design and to revive the quality achieved by the pioneers of printing. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer represents Morris's most ambitious undertaking as a

Whether biblical or mythological figures

and often laugh-out-loud moments that define female friendship

The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history

As evidenced by the myriad plants she mentions in her stories

Charlotte was more inclined to draw the flowers and the plants than to stop and smell them

quite uncomfortable

the book arrived in the bookshop of the London publisher Edward Blount at the Black Bear

each card doubles as a playing card and tarot card

and new versions of myths

William Shakespeare was a decent guy

and botanical art

Clarissa Dalloway