The Canterbury Tales: (Original-Spelling Edition) - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Geoffrey Chaucer, Jill Mann (Introduction by), Jill Mann (Notes by)Series:Penguin ClassicsPublish date:2005-08-30Pages:1328
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140422344ISBN-10:014042234XUPC:9780140422344Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, MedievalBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:7.76 x 5.14 x 2.24 inchesWeight:1.8827Product ID:SCHRB6Z9SY
The Canterbury Tales: (Original-Spelling Edition)
One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, in the original Middle English 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 express their mutual antagonism in a pair of comic stories...
Series: Penguin Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140422344ISBN-10:014042234XUPC:9780140422344Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, MedievalBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:7.76 x 5.14 x 2.24 inchesWeight:1.8827Product ID:SCHRB6Z9SY
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 ransomed when captured during the English campaign in France in 1359-60....
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Jill Mann (Introduction by), Jill Mann (Notes by)
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