Geoffrey Chaucer

Robert W. Hanning

Peter Tuttle

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Pilgrims on their way to worship at the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket in Canterbury stop at the Tabard Inn. Representing a cross-section of medieval English society, the group includes a knight and his squire, a prioress, a friar, a miller, and a wife. To amuse themselves on their journey, they agree that each will tell a tale. These stories--by turns bawdy, hilarious, scurrilous, romantic, heroic, and moving--reveal a great deal about the tellers and the world they live in, which, despite the distance of six hundred years, seems remarkably like our own. Indeed, the structure of The Canterbury Tales and the sophisticated, intricate interplay between the stories, their narrators, and the general narrator (himself a complex comic character) give the book its strikingly modern flavor.

The Canterbury Tales

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Illinois

A group of pilgrims pass the time during their journey to Canterbury by telling each other stories.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Canterbury Tales

Bruce Nicol

Oregon

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District of Columbia

Paul Strohm

British edition. Dust jacket intact. First edition. 

Massachusetts

Chaucer and the Year That Made the Canterbury Tales

As the year 1386 began, Geoffrey Chaucer was a middle-aged bureaucrat and sometime poet, living in London and enjoying the perks that came with his close connections to its booming wool trade. When it ended, he was jobless, homeless, out of favour with his friends and living in exile. Such a reversal might have spelled the end of his career; but instead, at the loneliest time of his life, Chaucer made the revolutionary decision to 'maken vertu of necessitee' and keep writing. The result - the Canterbury Tales - was a radically new form of poetry that would make his reputation, bring him to a national audience, and preserve his work for posterity.In The Poet's Tale, Paul Strohm brings Chaucer's world to vivid life, from the streets and taverns of crowded medieval London to rural seclusion in Kent, and reveals this crucial year as a turning point in the fortunes of England's most important poet.

The Poet's Tale

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Seymour Chwast

Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles, of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travelers, including a battle-worn knight, a sweetly pretentious prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath, and an emaciated scholar-clerk, come up with a plan to pass time on the journey to Thomas à Becket's shrine by telling stories. The twenty-four tales, which range from high romance set in ancient Greece to low comedy in contemporary England, are adapted into graphic novel form by Seymour Chwast-a pitch-perfect transposition of Chaucer's pointed satire. Chwast's illustrations relate tales of trust and treachery, of piety and bawdiness, in an engaging style that will appeal to those who have enjoyed The Canterbury Tales for years, and those for whom this is a first, delectable introduction.

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Utah

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Paperback copy of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 

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THE CANTERBURY 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.

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.

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The three Oxford Guides to Chaucer are written by scholars of international repute, with the purpose of summarizing what is known about his works and offering interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding. They will provide readers atevery level with new interpretations and ideas, with essential and up-to-date information on such matters as dating and sources and with analyses of thematic issues, structure, style rhetoric and generic relations brought right up-to-date for this second paperback edition.Helen Cooper's volume on The Canterbury Tales tackles these matters both for the whole work and for each individual Tale. It also includes a survey of literary responses to the Tales over the two centuries following Chaucer's death. The book is perhaps the most comprehensive single-volume guideto the Tales yet produced, bringing together a wide range of disparate material and providing a readable commentry on all aspects of the work. It combines the comprehensive coverage of a reference book with the coherence of a critical account and since its first publication in 1989, has establisheditself as a standard work on the Tales.

Oxford Guides to Chaucer

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Back cover has sticker residue and some tearing. Folding, scratches, and other wear on covers and spine. #paperback #poetry #epic #fiction #geoffreychaucer #chaucer #canterburytales

North Dakota

Only imperfection is a stamp on the first pages! 

Ohio

Vintage 1963 edition. Modern english.  Readable vintage condition. Has lots of marks, scuffs, dings, and some writing on the pages, but isn't falling apart or fragile.  #paperback #chaucer #classics #canterburytales #vintagebook #1960s #vintagepaperback #academia #allegory #englishlit 

Colorado

Vintage paperback

Outlet Book Company Staff

Nebraska

Oxford World Classics

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Alabama

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Burton Raffel

John Miles Foley

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Arkansas

Maintains the flavor, charm, and rhythm of the original version as it chronicles the stories of a group of travelers representing every aspect of medieval society on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, England.

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Tennessee

Othello, Canterbury Tales and Tartuffe

Set of Three Croft Classics 

Michigan

This edition of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer was printed in 2006 and is a Bantam Classics Paperback. This book is in good condition with some signs of wear. A minor crease on the spine and minor mark the front page edging. The inside of the book is clean with no writing or underlining, and the cover is clean.

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