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Loading... The Canterbury tales; the Prologue and four tales, with the Book of the duchess and six lyrics, (1930)by Geoffrey Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer
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Is contained inThe Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer (indirect) The Riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer (indirect) The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer (indirect) Chaucer's Major Poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer (indirect)
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. No library descriptions found. |
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