Canterbury Tales

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Medieval pilgrimage tales for literature aficionados.

Canterbury Tales is a must-read for anyone interested in medieval literature. Chaucer's classic work transports readers back in time to the world of medieval pilgrims, providing a glimpse into the lives of common people in the Middle Ages. This edition contains valuable background information, notes, and glosses that make the Middle English text accessible to modern readers, and is a great addition to any literature lover's bookshelf.

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Canterbury Tales

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ISBN: 9780679409892
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Date of Publication: 1992-06-30
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Poetry
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The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer’s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories told by pilgrims on the way to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury reveal a teeming, vital fourteenth-century English society on the verge of its Renaissance.These tales bring together a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire.
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Medieval pilgrimage tales for literature aficionados.

Canterbury Tales is a must-read for anyone interested in medieval literature. Chaucer's classic work transports readers back in time to the world of medieval pilgrims, providing a glimpse into the lives of common people in the Middle Ages. This edition contains valuable background information, notes, and glosses that make the Middle English text accessible to modern readers, and is a great addition to any literature lover's bookshelf.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.