The Hack's Tale

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Offers an exploration of how the media pervades modern existence. The author sets out on a pilgrimage that takes him to Canterbury with Chaucer, the inventor of sitcom, to France w ith Froissart, the father of modern journalism, and to Italy with Boccaccio, who shaped Italian prose into a medium of racy narrative as crisp and visual as movies. Show more