The Hack's Tale : Hunting the Makers of the Media - Boccaccio, Chaucer, Froissart

by David Hughes

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 with 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.

205 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

David Hughes was a British novelist. His best known works included The Pork Butcher (Constable, 1984) for which he was awarded the WH Smith Literary Award in 1985 and But for Bunter, published as The Joke of the Century in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hu... . See also http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4443...