Download or read book The Wordsmith's Tale written by Stephen Edden and published by DB. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with great verve and wit, and bringing to the page the sights, smells and sounds of a tumultuous, often brutal period in English history, this is a timeless tale - still relevant, a thousand years on - of how love, laughter and language are the best defences, when hardship and oppression bear down on you.