The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter Ackroyd (Translator), Peter Ackroyd (Adapted by), Peter Ackroyd (Introduction by)Series:Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2010-11-02Pages:464
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780143106173ISBN-10:143106171UPC:9780143106173Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Short Stories (single author), LiterarySize:8.22 x 5.79 x 1.21 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCXM5KQJBF
The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
"A romp for the ages" (Vanity Fair)--now with a graphic cover and deluxe packaging Renowned novelist, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents it in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, The Canterbury Tales concerns a motley...
Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780143106173ISBN-10:143106171UPC:9780143106173Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Short Stories (single author), LiterarySize:8.22 x 5.79 x 1.21 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCXM5KQJBF
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, critic, and biographer. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of a wine-merchant, in about 1342, and as he spent his life in royal government service his career happens to be unusually well documented. By 1357 Chaucer was a page to the wife of Prince Lionel, second son of Edward III, and it was while in the prince's service that Chaucer was...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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