Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporatio
Keywords: tales, canterbury
Number of Pages: 321
Published: 2000-07-31
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0543903222
ISBN-13: 9780543903228

A group of English men and women from all walks of life gather at the Tabard Inn atSouthwark and proceed on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Before they leave, their host proposes a contest: whichever of them can tell the best story during the ride to Canterbury will be given a free dinner at the Tabard upon the group’s return to London. And as courtlyromances are answered by filthy fabliaux, and proto-feminist exempla lead to heated debates about marriage, the pilgrims provide modern readers with an alternately touching and riotous look at life in medieval England. Highlights include: "The M

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Hesperides Pre
Keywords: tales, canterbury
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2006-11-12
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1406737593
ISBN-13: 9781406737592

CANTERBURY TALES BY GEOFFREY CHAUCER INTRODUCTION GETS born on the edge of a new era stand in peculiar danger of being misunderstood and depreciated by the generations that follow. Since time never stands still, and one age is forever melting into the next, any poet has to take a rather desperate chance of .appealing to readers beyond his own day. There is always the possibility, to be sure, that he may be more highly esteemed than by his contempo rariesa faint hope that has buoyed up many who were destined to drown in the waters of oblivion but this does not often happen. The inevitable reval

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, tales, canterbury
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0199535620
ISBN-13: 9780199535620

David Wright’s new translation of The Canterbury Tales into modern verse--the first to appear in over thirty years--makes one of the greatest works of English literature accessible to all readers while preserving the wit and vivacity of Chaucer’s original text.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, tales, canterbury
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2003-02-04
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0140424385
ISBN-13: 9780140424386

With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth century that is as robust as it is representative. Translated by Nevill Coghill

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Keywords: tales, canterbury
Number of Pages: 692
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $49.45
ISBN-10: 1443725978
ISBN-13: 9781443725972

CANTERBURY TALES BY GEOFFREY CHAUCER INTRODUCTION GETS born on the edge of a new era stand in peculiar danger of being misunderstood and depreciated by the generations that follow. Since time never stands still, and one age is forever melting into the next, any poet has to take a rather desperate chance of .appealing to readers beyond his own day. There is always the possibility, to be sure, that he may be more highly esteemed than by his contempo rariesa faint hope that has buoyed up many who were destined to drown in the waters of oblivion but this does not often happen. The inevitable reval

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc.
Keywords: touchstone, literary, tales, canterbury
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $3.99
ISBN-10: 1580493963
ISBN-13: 9781580493963

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary, sidebars, and reader’s notes to help the modern reader appreciate Chaucer’s richly layered tales. In 1367, King Edward III of England addressed Parliament in the crude language of the masses—English. Before then, the language of the Court and aristocracy had been French, and the language of the University and Church was Latin. In that same year, Geoffrey Chaucer, a young man in the court of the King, began to translate poetry from French into English. He would soon begin to write his own poetry in English—against

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc
Keywords: tales, canterbury
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1580495206
ISBN-13: 9781580495202

Visually engages readers by placing the original dialogue on the left-hand side of the page, and a modern prose interpretations on the right. Includes the following selection: •The General Prologue •The Wife of Bath’s Tale •The Wife of Bath’s Prologue •The Knight’s Tale •The Pardoner’s Tale •The Nun’s Priest’s Tale