Books Quote by Jack Weatherford

“Chaucer's world in The Canterbury Tales brings together, for the first time, a diversity of characters, social levels, attitudes, and ways of life. The…

— Ronald Carter

“people can die of mere imagination - Geffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales”

— Paul Strohm

Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow,…

— Charles Dickens

I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.

— Martin McDonagh

We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions,”

— George Orwell

I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my…

— David Eddings

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the…

— Paul Theroux

Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India about the…

— Joseph Jacobs

“the most famous of all those who had an acquaintance with cryptology in the Middle Ages was an English customs official, amateur astronomer, and…

— David Kahn

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

— Tobias Smollett

“As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical…

— Sara Sheridan