The Canterbury Tales

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0140424385

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English A Penguin Classic In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight’s account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath’s Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. Rich and diverse, The Canterbury Tales offer us an unrivalled glimpse into the life and mind of medieval England. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780553902525

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

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.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 184022536X

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

The Canterbury Tales tells the story of 30 pilgrims who meet by chance at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, London, and journey together to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury cathedral. To pass the time along the way, they tell stories to one another. This new transcription and edition is taken from British Library MS Harley 7334, a beautifully-decorated, volume produced within ten years of Chaucer's death.

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101155639

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The Canterbury Tales by Peter Ackroyd Pdf

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 : Gerald J. Davis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365188015

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The Canterbury Tales, The New Translation by Gerald J. Davis Pdf

The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England. Complete and Unabridged.

Author : Manish Sharma
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487539566

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The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales by Manish Sharma Pdf

The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an "insoluble." Philosophers of the fourteenth century expended great effort to solve insolubilia, like the notorious Liar paradox, in order to decide upon their truth or falsity. For Chaucer, however, and in keeping with Christ’s admonition from the Sermon on the Mount, the lover does not judge – does not decide on – the beloved. Through a series of detailed and rigorously "non-judgmental" readings, Manish Sharma provides new insight into each of the prologues and tales and intervenes into scholarly debates about their collective import. In so doing, The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales deploys Chaucer’s understanding of charity to consider the limitations of modern critical approaches to The Canterbury Tales, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. In the course of the analysis, Sharma shows not only how love and medieval philosophy together inform Chaucerian composition, but also how Chaucer could serve as a resource for contemporary theoretical reflections on love and ethics.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 9781608439355

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Canterbury Tales: Literary Touchstone Classic - Revised Edition by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : UOM:39015004167345

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Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text) by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1775
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1092315785

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047975771

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Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393655124

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The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue (Third International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

“This book has been more helpful to the students—both the better ones and the lesser ones—than any other book I have ever used in any of my classes in my more than a quarter century of university teaching.” —RICHARD L. KIRKWOOD, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire This Norton Critical Edition includes: • The medieval masterpiece’s most popular tales, including—new to the Third Edition—The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun’s Prologue and Tale. • Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface, and a guide to Chaucer’s language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson. • Sources and analogues arranged by tale. • Twelve critical essays, seven of them new to the Third Edition. • A Chronology, a Short Glossary, and a Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 181?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781613102503

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The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:450590993

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Canterbury (England)
ISBN : 0838457088

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The Complete Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

The Canterbury Tales has succeeded in cementing a place as one of the earliest masterpieces of English literature. Including plates from the celebrated Kelmscott Chaucer.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer,Larry Dean Benson
Publisher : American Chemical Society
Page : 1386 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 9780199552092

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The Riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer,Larry Dean Benson Pdf

A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.