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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, The Canterbury Tales depicts a storytelling competition between pilgrims drawn from all ranks of society. The tales are as various as the pilgrims themselves, encompassing comedy, pathos, tragedy, and cynicism. The Miller and the Reeve ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales: A Norton Critical Edition by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics
This Norton Critical Edition includes: ? The medieval masterpiece's most popular tales, including-new to the Third Edition-The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale. ? Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface, and a guide to Chaucer's language by V ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales (Puffin Classic) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics
This is a lively, humorous retelling for children of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean.
The Complete Canterbury Tales Slipcase by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics
Although it was never completed, The Canterbury Tales has succeeded in cementing a place as one of the earliest masterpieces of English literature. Including plates from the celebrated Kelmscott Chaucer, this unique clothbound edition in its own slipcase makes a truly beautiful gift.
The Riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics
The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon. Since F. N. Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship. This has not only e ...Show more
The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics
In the tradition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Marie Borroff's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher's The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and metre and articulating his ...Show more
The Wife of Bath : Little Black Classic by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics 28
'Those husbands that I had, Three of them were good and two were bad. The three that I call "good" were rich and old...' One of the most bawdy, entertaining and popular stories from The Canterbury Tales. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celeb ...Show more
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer; James Dean (Editor); Harriet Spiegel (Editor)
Category: Fiction
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer. Troilus and Criseyde is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the Siege of Troy. Calchas, a soothsayer, foresees the fall of Troy and abandons th ...Show more