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Confessio Amantis; Or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins [EPUB ebook]

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Confessio Amantis or The Lover’s Confession is a 33, 000-line Middle-English poem by John Gower. The plot is based on the confession made by an aging lover to the chaplain of Venus. This confession works as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems. As it is mentioned in the prologue, the work was composed on the commission of Richard II.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 518 ● ISBN 4066339557789 ● File size 0.8 MB ● Editor G. C. Macaulay ● Publisher e-artnow ● City Prague ● Country CZ ● Published 2023 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 9261571 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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