The Sundial.

Author / Editor
Jackson, Shirley.

Title
The Sundial.

Published
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958.

Physical Description
245 pp.

Description
A novel of family tensions, centering on death, possessiveness, and the legacy of a household estate. A central image is the sundial of the title, on display in the family library. Inscribed on the sundial is a half-line quotation of KnT 1.2777: “What is this world?”

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Knight and His Tale