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An edition of The Canterbury Tales (1478)

The Canterbury tales

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Chaucer's great narrative poem about a group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury telling each other stories along the way, in an unabridged translation into modern English.

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Oxford University Press
Language
English, Middle English
Pages
482

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Carleton Brown (1869-1941) Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400) Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400) Walter W. Skeat (1835-1912)

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14th century Middle English, 1100-1500

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1985, Oxford University Press
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1985, Chancellor
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1973, Kadokawa
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1968, Oxford University Press
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1965, Random House
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1964, Barrie and Rockliff
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Canterbury tales: with an essay upon his language and versification, an introductory discourse, notes, and a glossary
1822, W. Pickering
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Oxford [Oxfordshire], New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
821/.1
Library of Congress
PR1870.A1 W7 1985, PR1870.A1W7 1985, PR1870.A1 W72 1985

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvii, 482 p. ;
Number of pages
482

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3024555M
ISBN 10
0192510347
LCCN
85004880
OCLC/WorldCat
186747207, 11814297
LibraryThing
9978
Goodreads
4706145

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Work ID
OL531767W

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A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowls, The Canterbury Tales was Chaucer's magnum opus. He uses the tales and the descriptions of the characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church. Structurally, the collection bears the influence of The Decameron, which Chaucer is said to have come across during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. However, Chaucer peoples his tales with 'sondry folk' rather than Boccaccio's fleeing nobles.

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