Paul Oskar Höcker the movies. He was the father of musician and author Karla Höcker. In the beginning of the twentieth century he wrote a number of Leatherstocking Tales for children in the vein of James Fenimore Cooper, and attracted attention in the United States; "The Pittsburg Press", in a short biographical article published in 1905, describes him as the author of "delightfully humorous stories." During World War I he was a captain in the Landwehr in Lille, France. He wrote of his experiences in the first three months of the war in "An der Spitze meiner Kompagnie. Drei Monate Kriegserlebnisse" (Berlin: 1919),
The Canterbury Tales of Dante and Virgil in "The Divine Comedy". New research suggests that the General Prologue, in which the innkeeper and host Harry Bailey introduces each pilgrim, is a pastiche of the historical Harry Bailey's surviving 1381 poll-tax account of Southwark's inhabitants. "The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio contains more parallels to "The Canterbury Tales" than any other work. Like the "Tales", it features a number of narrators who tell stories along a journey they have undertaken (to flee from the Black Death). It ends with an apology by Boccaccio, much like Chaucer's Retraction to the "Tales". A quarter of the tales