From the recent boxes, the only English-language fiction there-in. It's unlikely their previous owner celebrated 4/20 veggies. Mediæval poetry & fiction, a space-age plague, & a futuristic dystopia. Classics, all!

4/20/23 Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open containers, please.

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In Geoffrey Chaucer's first major work, The Book of the Duchess (c. 1370 CE), two genres of medieval literature are combined – the French poetic convention of courtly love and the high medieval dream vision – to create a poem of enduring power on the theme of grief. The piece was composed for Chaucer's friend John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (l. 1340-1399 CE) in honor of his late wife Blanche (...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1376/grief--consolation-in-chaucers-book-of-the-duchess/ #CourtlyLove #GeoffreyChaucer #MedievalLiterature