Love, Sex, and Death – a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals in poetry.
PILGRIMAGES /THE CANTERBURY TALES  by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 1400) in 141 graphics interpretation (58 drawings /paintings + 83 computer graphics) by Peter Russo.
On the Eve of a Pilgrimage, sometime in the waning years of the 14th century, on a spring day in April 29 travelers from a London Cheap side Inn set out on a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral to pay homage to the martyred St. Thomas a’ Becket. Among them, a Knight, a Prioress, a Merchant, a Miller, a Monk, a Plowman, a Clerk, the ever-entertaining oft-widowed Wife from Bath, and many others, are challenged by the inn's Host to a competition: to while away their morrow's journey by each telling a tale. On returning to London their Host will then decided the best storyteller a luxurious meal on behalf of that Pilgrim's fellows.
264 pages, hardcover, dustcover.
Size: W 27 cm x H 32 cm / W 10½ in x  h 12½ in. Original Language: English cca.1300). creative layout, EDITOR & PUBLISHER: PETRU RUSSU