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Canterbury Tales

By Geoffrey Chaucer

Canterbury Tales Classics

Canterbury Tales

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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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
664
Release Date:
1992-06-30
Publication Date:
1992-06-30
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679409890
ISBN13:
9780679409892
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
671 g
Height:
137 cm
Width:
212 cm
Thickness:
37 cm
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