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The Canterbury Tales
The Floating Press 2012; US$ 4.99Geoffrey Chaucer's fourteenth-century masterpiece The Canterbury Tales is such a rollicking good read that you'll forget many critics and scholars also regard it as one of the most important literary works in English. A group of pilgrims are traveling together to visit a holy shrine at the Canterbury Cathedral. Along the way, they decide to... more...
The Canterbury Tales
NuVision Publications, LLC 2003; US$ 3.99The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories in a frame story, between 1387 and 1400. It is a story of a group of travelers on their way to England. The Pilgrims, from all levels of society, tell each other stories, which make up the contents of this fabulous book. more...
The Canterbury Tales
Random House Publishing Group 2006; US$ 5.99Lively, 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,... more...
The Canterbury Tales
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableAt the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are... more...
The Canterbury Tales
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableIn 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 story-telling 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... more...
Troilus and Criseyde
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 3.99A master piece by Chaucer. Troilus and Criseyde is considered as greatest narrative poems in English Literature. It tells a story of a young warrior, Troilus who falls in love with a widow named Criseyde. Both are forced to be distant by war thus getting a test of their loyalties. The author has described human desires and emotions with... more...
The Legend of Good Women
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 3.99An outstanding poem and a consummate example of employing the dream vision technique. It is one of the longest works of Chaucer. The poet unfolds ten stories of virtuous women in nine sections. It is one of the first mock-heroic works in English Literature. Inspirational! more...
Canterbury Tales
Simon & Schuster 2013; Not AvailableThe procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer... more...
Canterbury Tales
Simon & Schuster 2013; Not AvailableThe procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer... more...
Canterbury Tales
Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 5.95The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer... more...









