John Conlee
Author
Language
English
Description
Young American scholar Charles Bascombe is thrilled when a well-known Cornish bibliophile invites him to Cornwall to see a mysterious medieval manuscript he has recently come to possess. Accompanied by his Oxford mentor, Professor William Wentworth, Charles goes to the Lizard to study the manuscript. He soon determines that it may contain a long-lost poem by fourteenth-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer. After Charles has transcribed the work, the manuscript,...