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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101155639
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
ISBN 13 : 1608439356
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Canterbury Tales: Literary Touchstone Classic - Revised Edition written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : OXFORD
ISBN 13 : 9780194247580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Five Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by OXFORD. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.
Author : Paul G. Ruggiers
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Art of the Canterbury Tales written by Paul G. Ruggiers and published by Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... In the first part of [this] discussion, Mr. Ruggiers is concerned with the form of the poem, with the framework of the pilgrimage, and particularly with the relationship between the assembly of serious and comic tales constituting the mid-section of the Canterbury Tales and the concluding Retraction. At the end of Part I, Prof. Ruggiers establishes a twofold classification of the tales: comedy, the "infernal" mode, presenting unregenerate man; and romance, the "purgatorial" mode, presenting man capable or regeneration. In Parts II and III, he makes detailed analyses of the tales thus classified, and concludes with a consideration of The Parson's Tale as a homiletic statement of the double vision -- of man as fallen and as redeemed -- that underlines and shapes the work as a whole. The Art of the Canterbury Tales is a perceptive and persuasively reasoned argument that the Canterbury Tales yields its order and meaning to thematic rather than narrative or dramatic examination. It should exert a strong influence on all Chaucer criticism to come." -Publisher.
Author : Donald R. Howard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520312775
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Idea of the Canterbury Tales written by Donald R. Howard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Author : Seymour Chwast
Publisher : Bloomsbury UK
ISBN 13 : 9781408812211
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Seymour Chwast and published by Bloomsbury UK. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way - on motorcycles, of course - to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travellers, including a battle-worn Knight, sweetly pretentious Prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath and emaciated scholar-Clerk, come up with a plan to pass time on the journey to Thomas a Becket's shrine by telling stories. The twenty-four tales, which range from high romance set in ancient Greece to low comedy in contemporary England, are adapted by Chwast in a pitch-perfect rendering of Chaucer's pointed satire. His illustrations and diagrams relate tales of trust and treachery, of piety and bawdiness, in an engaging style that will appeal to those who've enjoyed The Canterbury Tales for years, and those for whom this is a first, delectable introduction.
Author : Charles Abraham Owen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859913348
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales written by Charles Abraham Owen and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1991 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales reveal about the way they came into being. [see revs] This study of the manuscripts of the Canterbury Talescalls into question previous efforts to explain the complexities, the different orderings of the tales and the extraordinary shifts in textual affiliations within the manuscripts. Owen sees the manuscripts that survive, most of them collections of all or almost all the tales, as derived from the large number of single tales and small collections that circulated after Chaucer's death. This theory takes issue with all modern editions of the Canterbury Tales, which in Owen's view reflect the effort of medieval scribes and supervisors to make a satisfactory book of the collection of fragments Chaucer left behind. It is this collection of fragments, the authentic Tales of Canterbury by Geoffrey Chaucer, which reflects the different stages of the plan that was still evolving at his death. CHARLES A. OWEN Jr is former Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies at the University of Conneticut.
Author : Robert Epstein
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786831708
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Chaucer's Gifts written by Robert Epstein and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the most celebrated literary work of medieval England, portrays the culture of the late Middle Ages as a deeply commercial environment, replete with commodities and dominated by market relationships. However, the market is not the only mode of exchange in Chaucer’s world or in his poem. Chaucer’s Gifts reveals the gift economy at work in the tales. Applying important recent advances in anthropological gift theory, it illuminates and explains this network of exchanges and obligations. Chaucer’s Gifts argues that the world of the Canterbury Tales harbours deep commitments to reciprocity and obligation which are at odds with a purely commercial culture, and demonstrates how the market and commercial relations are not natural, eternal, or inevitable – an essential lesson if we are to understand Chaucer’s world or our own.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text) written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John M Bowers
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 158044461X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by John M Bowers and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Geoffrey Chaucer died in 1400, his massive project, the Canterbury Tales, lay unfinished and unpublished. This volume includes five works that aim to fill in the gaps in this incomplete masterpiece. The pieces presented here date from the fifteenth century and survive in at least one manuscript collection of Chaucer's tales: John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, The Ploughman's Tale, The Cook's Tale, Spurious Links, and The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn. These pieces of Chaucerian apocrypha have been collected into one student-friendly edition, including introductions, notes, glosses, and a glossary to accommodate students of all levels of experience in Middle English.
Author : Paul Strohm
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143127837
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Chaucer's Tale written by Paul Strohm and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160384063X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than other translators, a four-beat rhythm well-established in the English poetic tradition up to Chaucer's time. Glaser's shortened lines make compelling reading and mirror the elegance and variety of Chaucer's verse to a degree rarely met by translations that copy Chaucer beat for beat. Moreover, this translation's full, Chaucerian range of diction--from earthy to Latinate--conveys the great scope of Chaucer's interests and effects. The selection features complete translations of the majority of the stories, including all of the more familiar tales and narrative links along with abridgments or summaries of the others. To reflect Chaucer's interest in poetic technique, Glaser presents the tales written in non-couplet stanzas in their original forms. An Introduction, marginal glosses, bibliography, and notes are also included.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Collector's Library
ISBN 13 : 9781907360510
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Kelmscott Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Collector's Library. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kelmscott Chaucer is the most memorable and beautiful edition of the complete works of the first great English poet. Next to The Gutenberg Bible, it is considered the outstanding typographic achievement of all time. There are 87 full-page illustrations by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and the borders, decorations and initials are drawn byWilliam Morris himself. Only 425 copies of this magnificent work were produced in 1896, and this beautiful monochrome facsimile, slightly smaller than the original, makes this glorious book available to all. A fascinating Introduction by Nicholas Barker places the book and its importance in context. The main text is followed by a black and white facsimile of ANoteby William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, together with a Short History of the Press by S C Cockerell.
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Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Here Bygynneth Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written by and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling in comic strip form of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous work in which a group of pilgrims in fourteenth-century England tell each other stories as they travel on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Canterbury.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (153 download)
Download or read book The Pardoner's Tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
