| The Canterbury Tales Contributor(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (Author), Nicolson, J. U. (Translator), Jarvis, Martin (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1433249715 ISBN-13: 9781433249716 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $112.50 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: In Chaucers classic work, thirty travelers on a pilgrimage share stories to pass the time, revealing a variety of different outlooks on life and a multifaceted portrait of life in the late fourteenth century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: 821.1 |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 6.8" W x 6.3" (1.05 lbs) |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At the Tabard Inn, thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket's shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time and that the host of the inn will judge the tales and reward the best storyteller with a free supper upon their return. Thus we hear, translated into modern English, twenty-some tales, told in the voices of knight and merchant, wife and miller, squire and nun, and many more. Some are bawdy, some spiritual, some romantic, some mysterious, some chivalrous. Between the stories, the travelers converse, joke, and argue, revealing much of their individual outlooks on life as well as what life was like in late fourteenth-century England. |
Contributor Bio(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey: - Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400), English poet, was the son of a London vintner. He was married and held a number of positions at court and in the king's service, including diplomat, controller of customs in the port of London, and deputy forester in the King's Forest in Somerset. He was buried in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey where a monument was erected to him in 1555. Jarvis, Martin: -Martin Jarvis has starred in many West End productions and on Broadway in By Jeeves. His screen appearances include Titanic, Murder She Wrote, Miss Marple, Numb3rs, Inspector Morse, and Stargate Atlantis. He is an award-winning audiobook performer and has received an OBE from the Queen for his services to drama. Full Cast, A.: - Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales on 27 October 1914. In 1934 his first book of poetry, Eighteen Poems appeared, followed by Twenty-five Poems in 1936, Deaths and Entrances in 1946 and in 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems. He also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories and talks, did a series of lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, the radio play.During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, a few days after his 39th birthday, he collapsed in his New York hotel and died on November 9th at St. Vincent's Hospital. His body was sent back to Laugharne, Wales, where his grave is marked by a simple wooden cross. In June 1994, his wife, Caitlin Thomas, died in Italy, where she had spent most of the years of her life after the death of Dylan Thomas. Her body is buried next to his. |