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Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Great Works That Shape Our World Ser.
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. "Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire ...Show more
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics
These tales bring together a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire.
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
It was Boccaccio’s Decameron which inspired Chaucer, in the 1390s, to begin work on The Canterbury Tales, which was still unfinished at his death in October 1400. It tells the story of a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames opposite the city of Lo ...Show more
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. "The Canterbury Tales" gather twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group port ...Show more
Canterbury Tales (Usborne Illustrated) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Picture Books | Series: Illustrated Story Collections
An ill-matched band of strangers sets off on a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury. To amuse themselves along the way, they hold a storytelling competition - but the tales soon turn from ripping yarns to slanging matches. Geoffrey Chaucer's outrageous comic tales from the 14th century are retold for ch ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
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The Canterbury Tales by Nick (ILT) Peter (RTL); Bantock Geoffrey; Ackroyd Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In The Canterbury TalesChaucer created one of the great to ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In The Canterbury TalesChaucer created one of the great to ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Author) , David Wright (Poet and translator) (Translated by) , Christopher Cannon (Professor of English, New York University) (Introduction and notes by)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other on the way to Canter ...Show more