The Road to Canterbury by Ian Serraillier

Serraillier stepped down when he began experiencing the onset of Alzheimer’s disease in the early 1990s. Buy The Road to Canterbury (New Windmills) by Serraillier, Mr Ian (1981) Hardcover by Ian Serraillier (ISBN: ) from Amazons Book Store. The series eventually grew to over 350 titles. In 1948 he and his wife, Ann Rogers, with whom he had four children, founded the New Windmill series, published by Heinemann Educational Books. Serraillier also published his own “translations,” or retellings, of classic tales such as Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, and Greek myths in addition, he published poems for adults, radio verse plays, picture books, and an introduction to Chaucer for students. His observations, however, were still potent enough to ensure his novels would be characterized by veracity. When World War II began, Serraillier invoked his religious background as a Quaker to obtain conscientious objector status.

His most famous works include The Silver Sword (1956), The Clashing Rocks, The Cave of Death, and Flight to Adventure. He published his first children’s novel, They Raced to Adventure, in 1946, and continued to publish many more afterwards. Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1935 and became an English teacher, a job that he held for twenty-five years. : The road to Canterbury: Tales from Chaucer (9780722655313) by Serraillier, Ian and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. He attended Brighton College and graduated from St. He looked forward to the family’s holidays in Switzerland, which would inform his later written works. When he was six, his father died of the 1918 flu pandemic, and since his mother was often ill, he cared for his siblings.

Serraillier was born in 1912, the eldest of four children. Ian Serraillier was a British author, poet, and translator, best known for his young-adult works such as The Silver Sword.

The Road to Canterbury by Ian Serraillier