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Loading... The Canterbury Tales: A Selection (Signet Classic Poetry) (edition 1988)by Geoffrey Chaucer
Work InformationThe Canterbury tales: a selection (Signet Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. have no idea WHY I bought this, it was on a whim. But read it I did. I found reading the pronunctation key and trying to read as it would have been spoken, instead of reading it as I would speak it, made the book FLOW for me... Chaucer was an incredible raconteur. My favorites in this book were, A Knights Tale, and A Shipmates Tale. (thank goodness for the footnotes!) ( ) no reviews | add a review
While Geoffrey Chaucer composed several magnificent works of poetry, his reputation as "the father of English literature" rests mainly on The Canterbury Tales, a group of stories told by assorted pilgrims en route to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. From the mirthful and bawdy to the profoundly moral, the tales, taken in their entirety, reflect not only the manners and mores of medieval England, but indeed, the full comic and tragic dimensions of the human condition. Considered the greatest collection of narrative poems in English literature, The Canterbury Tales was composed in the Middle English of Chaucer's day, possibly to be read aloud at the court of Richard II. However, their grandeur, humor, and relevance are timeless, as readers of this authoritative edition will discover. UNIQUE FEATURES OF THE SIGNET CLASSICS CANTERBURY TALES Full critical Introduction by editor Donald R. Howard * Normalized spelling system for easier reading and pronunciation * Extensive footnotes * Special section "On Pronouncing Chaucer" * Glossary of basic Middle English words With a Foreword by Frank Grady and a New Afterword by Paul Strohm No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)821.1Literature English & Old English literatures English poetry 1066-1400 Early English period, medieval periodLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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