Geoffrey: 1373 books

A landmark dramatisation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of one of the foundation stones of English literature. This two-play adaptation of Chaucer'sCanterbury Tales encompasses all 23 stories. All the famous characters are here - as well as many less well-known but equally full of life. Each of...

When an eclectic group of pilgrims take turns telling tales while on the road to Canterbury Cathedral, the Clerk of Oxford, a learned man, sets out to tell a moral and educational story for his fellow pilgrims. He tells the tale of Griselda, a beautiful young peasant girl chosen by the marquis to...

The defeat of the Third Reich is best told through the authentic voices of those who fought on the front line. This collection includes the stories of German soldiers fighting the Red Army on the Eastern Front. It includes those of Horst Messer, who served on the last East Prussian panzer tank but...

The study of forensic evidence using archaeology is a new discipline which has rapidly gained importance, not only in archaeological studies but also in the investigation of real crimes. Archaeological evidence is increasingly presented in criminal cases and has helped to secure a number of convictions. Studies...

Pills is a guy with a bad habit. Sharkey's the guy who collects when that habit gets out of hand. When Pills finds a way to settle his debts once and for all there might just be hell to pay.

YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE PASTFergus’s world changes forever the day his car crashes near the village of Allingley. Traumatised by his near-death experience, he stays to work at the local stables as he recovers. He will discover a gentler pace of life, fall in love and be targeted for human sacrifice.Clare...

Two, Two, Lily-White Boys follows the fortunes of two 14-year-old Scouts from Ermine Falls—Larry Carstairs, the narrator, and Andy Dellums, Larry’s schoolmate and friend—over the course of six days at Camp Greavy, a Boy Scout camp not far from Traverse City, Michigan. The story’s catalyst...

In the second half of the twentieth century war raged in Vietnam. It was hard to know if it would ever end, and harder still to understand fully the rights and wrongs of the various protagonists. At last, the North Vietnamese turned out to be tough, resilient, and ultimately victorious. Patience in...

Part one of a two week break in Ayrshire and Cumbria during a warm May in 1991. In this first part I hike from Ayr to Stranraer, sleeping in various wooded locations that are full of natural wildlife and magnificent lochs. Along the way I encounter close calls with the natural inhabitants, not to...

Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0 (B), University of Freiburg (Institute for Anglistics), course: Introduction to English and American Literature Studies, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Introduction...

A walk about Porthcawl and the towns environs during the middle of Spring 2013, The journey takes me through a lot of disappointment, but thankfully through lot of the more beauty spots that are further afield from a quite sorrowful town. I am accompanied by Mike Thomas, an old friend who is of Welsh origin and knows the better parts of this majestic country.

This is basically a sequel to short story called 'That walk' that I wrote the previous year. I returned to Cleethorpes once again to complete that long walk that I failed to achieve back then, and this time I was determined to conquer my quest. These are my memoirs of my return, and also to find a little more history of Cleethorpes and its surroundings.

Phonetic Symbol Guide is a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a complete survey of the hundreds of characters used by linguists and speech scientists to record the sounds of the world's languages. This fully revised second edition incorporates...

Part two of my northern journey on the west coast of Britain. This time I am in the heart of the Lake District where I revisit some old stamping grounds before deciding on a few days in the small seaside town of Silloth, on the Solway Firth. here I make the choice of staying at a campsite, rather...