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A poetically faithful and compelling translation of Chaucer's classic.
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The year is 1386 and the first flowers of spring are here. A number of pilgrims are going to Canterbury to visit the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket, and they all tell stories on the way. Who should be the stronger in a marriage - the husband or the wife? And what happens when two me...n fall in love with the same woman? In these five stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales we find different answers to these questions from the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Clerk of Oxford, the Merchant, and the Franklin. This retelling is good for all ages.
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The poem, in the original Middle English, is accompanied by background information, notes, and marginal glosses, and tells the story of a group of travelers on a pilgrimage.
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This book has been more helpful to the students-both the better ones and the lesser ones-than any other book I have ever used in any of my classes in my more than a quarter century of university teaching. -RICHARD L. KIRKWOOD, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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This edition, in two volumes, presents a record of commentary, both textual and interpretive, on the best-known and most widely studied part of Chaucer's work, The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales .
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One spring day 30 pilgrims set off from an inn in Southwark for a shrine in Canterbury. The inn keeper offers a free dinner, on their return, to the person who can tell the best story. So begins an assortment of tales from such varied characters as the Knight, the Wife of Bath an...d the Miller.
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This new reprint of the existing Everyman CANTERBURY TALES retains the essentialingredients of A C Cawley's highly respected edition,but adds a new prefactory introduction by Professor Malcolm Andrews of The Queen's University Belfast;a new suggested reading list;and a new chrono...logy of Chaucer's life and times.Whether read for study or purely pleasure,the CANTERBURY TALES remains as fresh and enjoyable today as when it was written.
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This fast-moving Modern English version of Chaucer's greatest tragic romance highlights the poem's rapid shifts in register and diction as well as its subtle and elusive characterizations, while preserving the enchanting rhyme-royal stanza of the Middle English original. Christin...e Chism's Introduction illuminates the work's historical context, poetic devices, first audiences, sources, and non-traditional re-conception of a traditional female protagonist whose faults, as Criseyde says, are rolled on every tongue.
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The second of the two-volume set describes the 56 extant copies and the fragments of otherwise lost copies of the 14th-century Middle English opus. The most recent complete catalogue was published in 1940. Since then knowledge about them has increased considerably because of pale...ographical analyses,
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This reading of The Canterbury Tales is in contempoarary English prose to appeal to the student and general reader alike. It tells the story of a pilgrimage to Canterbury in which men and women drawn from all classes of society lighten their journey by telling tales.
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