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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Ok, so who in their right mind doesn't love the Canterbury tales. I started reading this in high school and fell in love with it. I love the aged depth to the characters and I love the author and have more than a little crush on the guy....only because I like the character who plays him in "A Knight's Tale" the movie. ( )A classic read. Sometimes difficult, but worthwhile. Some of the tales were wildly funny, especially the Wife of Bath, but most I found boring and endless. Quite ironically, when I would get feed up with the tale, the host would jump in and tell the story teller how boring or frightfully horrid they were being. All in all I really dislike this book and hope I don't have to read it ever again. I might have appreciated it more in school, having a teacher to help me along with it. A true classic. Not as good or poetic as the original though. A collection of tales told in poetry by a group of traveling pilgrims. Ranging from bawdy to romantic, it includes some retellings of well known myths and legends. The Wife of Bath is hilarious! 0.062 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0140440224, Paperback)On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:11 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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