Canterbury Tales: Introduction by Derek Pearsall - Hardcover
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Geoffrey Chaucer, Derek Pearsall (Introduction by)Series:Everyman's Library ClassicsPublish date:6/30/1992Pages:664
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780679409892ISBN-10:679409890UPC:9780679409892Book Category:Poetry, FictionBook Subcategory:European, Medieval, ClassicsBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.34 x 5.40 x 1.47 inchesWeight:1.4815Product ID:SC39VXKHE6
The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer's utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories told by pilgrims on the way to the shrine of Thomas à...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780679409892ISBN-10:679409890UPC:9780679409892Book Category:Poetry, FictionBook Subcategory:European, Medieval, ClassicsBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.34 x 5.40 x 1.47 inchesWeight:1.4815Product ID:SC39VXKHE6
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), often referred to as "the grandfather of English literature," is invariably ranked with Shakespeare and Milton as one of the three greatest poets of the English language. His masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, has been a touchstone for English-language poetry for more than half a millennium and is one of the most widely read works in the Western canon.
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