| The Canterbury Tales Contributor(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (Author), Coghill, Nevill (Translator), Coghill, Nevill (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0141393211 ISBN-13: 9780141393216 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | Medieval |
| Dewey: 821.1 |
| Lexile Measure: 500 |
| Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (1.45 lbs) 528 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One of the great masterworks of English literature, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition 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 storytelling 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. Nevill Coghill's masterly and vivid modern English verse translation is rendered with consummate skill to retain all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English. |