The Canterbury Tales

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101155639
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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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 351 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.

Canterbury Tales

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Total Pages : 318 pages
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The Canterbury Tales in Plain and Simple English (Translated)

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Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1621074595
Total Pages : 1400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)

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The Canterbury Tales

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141966793
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis The Canterbury Tales by : Geoffrey Chaucer

Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete of all remaining surviving fragments sections of The Canterbury Tales, the First Fragment contains some of Chaucer's most widely enjoyed work. In The General Prologue, Chaucer introduces his pilgrims through a set of speaking portraits, drawn with a clarity that makes no attempt to conceal their peculiarities. The four tales that follow - those of the Knight, Miller, Reeve and Cook - reveal a wide variety of human preoccupations: whether chivalrous, romantic or simply sexual. Brilliantly bawdy and subtly complex, each of these tales is alive with Chaucer's skills as a poet, storyteller and creator of comedy.

The Canterbury Tales

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Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553210823
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis The Canterbury Tales by : Geoffrey Chaucer

Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1982-02-01 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman. This new edition includes a comprehensive introduction that summarizes some of the most important historical events and movements that defined the world of Chaucer and his pilgrims; two additional tales (Reeve’s and Shipman’s); introductions for each tale designed to prepare the reader for a better understanding and enjoyment of the tale; newly written and conveniently placed explanatory notes; and a new, more easily understood system for learning to pronounce Chaucerian Middle English.

Canterbury Tales: Literary Touchstone Classic - Revised Edition

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Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
ISBN 13 : 1608439356
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Chaucer's Tale

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Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143127837
Total Pages : 306 pages
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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.

Five Canterbury Tales

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Publisher : OXFORD
ISBN 13 : 9780194247580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (475 download)

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The Canterbury Tales, The New Translation

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365188019
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (651 download)

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The Idea of the Canterbury Tales

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520312775
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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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.

Canterbury Tales

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Book Synopsis Canterbury Tales by : Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse

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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160384063X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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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.

The Canterbury Tales

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
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Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The Tales of Canterbury, Complete

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
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Download or read book The Tales of Canterbury, Complete written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Tales of Canterbury by Geoffrey Chaucer. Also Includes order of the tales, language of Chaucer and suggestions for reading Chaucer

The Knight's Tale

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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The Miller's Prologue and Tale

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316615499
Total Pages : 97 pages
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Download or read book The Miller's Prologue and Tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Miller's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.