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The Canterbury tales a selection

A literary study guide that includes summaries and commentaries.

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  • "Selection from The Canterbury tales"@en
  • "Treasures in full, Caxton's Chaucer"@en
  • "Prologue to the Canterbury tales"
  • "Chaucer"@en
  • "Prologue to the Canterbury tales : notes, translation and text"@en
  • "Chaucer, The prologue to the Canterbury tales"@en
  • "Canterbury tales"@en

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  • ""includes a new glossary, a timeline of Chaucer's life and times, and detailed headers showing the section and line numbers, making it easier to find a specific section of the poem. Several popular prologues and tales have also been added to the selection: The Cook's Prologue and Tale, The Friar's Prologue and Tale, The Merchant's Prologue and Tale, and the Parson's Prologue."--Back cover."
  • "A literary study guide that includes summaries and commentaries."@en
  • "Delightful collection includes the General Prologue plus three of the most popular tales: "The Knight's Tale," "The Miller's Prologue and Tale," and "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale." Recast in modern English verse that captures the lively spirit of the originals."@en
  • "At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, in the London of the late 1300s, a band of men and women from all walks of life have gathered to begin a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket at Canterbury. To relieve the tedium of the journey, the host of the inn proposes that each of the pilgrims tell a favorite story, promising that the best storyteller will be treated to a fine dinner on the group's return to Southwark. So begins one of the earliest masterpieces of English literature, a collection of stories as much prized for the portraits of its story-tellers as for the stories they tell - portraits that reveal much of the rich social fabric of 14th-century England. Now three of the most popular tales - along with the charming General Prologue - have been selected for this edition: The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Prologue and Tale and The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. Animated by Chaucer's sly humor, flair for characterization and wise humanity, the stories have been recast into modern verse that captures the lively spirit of the originals. Highly entertaining, they represent an excellent entree to the rest of The Canterbury Tales and to the pleasures of medieval poetry in general. -Back cover."
  • "Tells the story of a group of travelers on a pilgrimage, presented in its original Middle English with a modern prose translation, and accompanied by background information and notes."
  • "Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than other translators, a four-beat rhythm well-established in the English poetic tradition up to Chaucer's time. Glaser's shortened lines make compelling reading and mirror the elegance and variety of Chaucer's verse to a degree rarely met by translations that copy Chaucer beat for beat. Moreover, this translation's full, Chaucerian range of diction--f."@en
  • "On this site you will find William Caxton's two editions of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, probably printed in 1476 and 1483, the originals of which are both in the British Library. This site is part of the British Library's impressive Treasures in Full series. In the Texts section you can view the first or the second editions separately, or you can compare them. If you chose to see one edition at a time, you will get two pages on the screen, the way you would if you had the book open in front of you. But to read them you may have to enlarge the image by clicking on it or using the enlarge icon. In the Background section you can find information on Caxton's life and about how he became involved with printing. You can find links to some web resources on Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales in our Links section and further reading in References. You can also view a Timeline."@en
  • "An annotated selection from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, "The Canterbury Tales," a series of stories narrated by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral."

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  • "Verhalen (teksten)"
  • "Study guides"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Adaptations"@en
  • "Specimens"
  • "Poëzie"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Antologies"
  • "Incunabula"@en
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Tales, Medieval"@en
  • "Poetry"@en
  • "Poetry"

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  • "The Canterbury tales a selection"@en
  • "The Canterbury tales a selection"
  • "Contes de Cantorbery traduits en vers français de Geoffrey Chaucer"
  • "The Prioress's Tale and Other Tales"
  • "Prioress's tale and other tales"
  • "Tre poetiska berättelser"@sv
  • "Tre poetiska berättelser"
  • "Les Contes de Cantorbéry"
  • "The prologue to the Canterbury tales : notes, translation and text"
  • "The prologue to the Canterbury tales : notes, translation and text"@en
  • "Contes de Cantorbéry : contes choisis avec introduction grammaticale"
  • "Caxton's Chaucer"@en
  • "Contes de Cantorbery"
  • "Canterbury Geschichten"
  • "Die Canterbury Geschicten"
  • "The Canterbury tales in modern verse"
  • "The Canterbury tales : a selection"@en
  • "The Canterbury tales : a selection"
  • "Les contes de Cantobéry. Traduction nouvelle, introduction et notes de Jean-Pierre Foucher. Suivis du "Pèlerinage de Cantorbéry", par E.C. Julier"
  • "Kēn̲ṭarpari kathaikaḷ : moḷipeyarppu"
  • "Les contes de Catorbéry"
  • "Canterbury-Geschichten [Auswahl]"
  • "The Canterbury Tales"
  • "The Canterbury tales; a selection"
  • "The prioresses tale and other tales"
  • "The Canterbury Tales: A Selection"@en
  • "Les Contes de Cantorbéry. Traduction juxta-linéaire du prologue, publiée avec une préface, une biographie de Chaucer, des notes et un appendice, par Pierre Pinsseau. Eng. & Fr"
  • "Les contes de cantorbéry : Le prologue général, le conte du chevalier, le conte du meunier, Le conte du pretre des nonnes"
  • "Contes de Cantorbéry. Traduits en vers français ... par le chevalier de Chatelain. [Including the spurious tales, and the text and translation of the "A.B.C."]"@en
  • "Contes de Cantorbéry = Canterbury tales"
  • "Canterburyske priče"
  • "Canterbury tales : a selection"@en
  • "Selected Canterbury tales"
  • "Selected Canterbury tales"@en
  • "The Canterbury Tales : a selection"
  • "Iz Canterburyjskih zgodb"
  • "The Prologue to the Canterbury tales : notes, translation and text"
  • "Les contes de Cantorberry"
  • "Les Contes de Cantorbéry Ière partie"
  • "Contes de Cantorbéry : Contes choisis, avec introd. grammaticale, notes et glossaire"
  • "Canterburyjske priče"
  • "Canterburyjske priče"@hr
  • "The Squire's tale ; and, The tale of Sir Thopas"
  • "Chaucer : the prologue to the Canterbury tales : notes, translation and text"
  • "Chaucer : the prologue to the Canterbury tales : notes, translation and text"@en
  • "Selected Canterbury Tales"@en
  • "Selected Canterbury Tales"
  • "Contes de Cantorbéry : contes choisis"
  • "The Canterbury tales"
  • "The squire's tale and, the tale of Sir Thopas"
  • "The Canterbury Tales in modern verse"
  • "Les contes de Cantorbery"
  • "Contes de Cantorbéry : Contes choisis, avec introduction grammaticale, notes et glossaire"
  • "The prioress's tale : and other tales"@en
  • "Les contes de Cantorbéry"
  • "Contes de Cantorbéry"
  • "The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse"@en
  • "Canterbury Geschichten : Auswahl"
  • "The prioress's tale and other tales"@en
  • "Canterbury-Geschichten"

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