Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue (Third International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393655121
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
“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 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. A. Kolve and Glending Olson. • Sources and analogues arranged by tale. • Twelve critical essays, seven of them new to the Third Edition. • A Chronology, a Short Glossary, and a Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
The Prologue
Author: ChaucerChaucer's Tale
Author: Paul StrohmPublisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143127837
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"A lively microbiography of Geoffrey Chaucer, the "father of English literature", focusing on the surprising and fascinating story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of the Canterbury Tales"--Provided by publisher.
Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text)
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerThe Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334178X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Peter AckroydPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101155639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer’s classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ranging from comedy to tragedy, pious sermon to ribald farce, heroic adventure to passionate romance, the tales serve not only as a summation of the sensibility of the Middle Ages but as a representation of the drama of the human condition. Ackroyd’s contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters—as well as explicitly rendering the naughty good humor of the writer whose comedy influenced Fielding and Dickens—yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer’s verse. This retelling is sure to delight modern readers and bring a new appreciation to those already familiar with the classic tales.
The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Preestes Tale from the Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerFive Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: OXFORD
ISBN: 9780194247580
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.