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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales: A Norton Critical Edition by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics
This Norton Critical Edition includes: ? The medieval masterpiece's most popular tales, including-new to the Third Edition-The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale. ? Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface, and a guide to Chaucer's language by V. A. ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales: Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions
The most admired of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are presented here in the original language but with spelling and annotations for modern readers. Sources and background information are included for the General Prologue and for most of the tales, enabling students to understand them in the light of releva ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales - a Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Fiction
A lively, humorous re-telling for children of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean.
The Canterbury Tales, the Norton Library by Geoffrey Chaucer; Sheila Fisher (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Norton Library
Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter, Sheila Fisher's vivid, lively, and readable translation makes the poetic artistry of?The Canterbury Tales?accessible to a contemporary ear and invites readers, even those who have read the work before in Middle English, to a new appreciation of its delightful storie ...Show more
The Complete Canterbury Tales Slipcase by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classic Fiction
Although it was never completed, The Canterbury Tales has succeeded in cementing a place as one of the earliest masterpieces of English literature. Including plates from the celebrated Kelmscott Chaucer, this unique clothbound edition in its own slipcase makes a truly beautiful gift.
The Riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classic Fiction
The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon. Since F. N. Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship. This has not only e ...Show more
The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Poetry
In the tradition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Marie Borroff's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher's The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and metre and articulating his ...Show more
The Selected Canterbury Tales : A New Verse Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Fiction
In the tradition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Marie Borroff's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher's The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and metre and articulating his ...Show more
The Wife of Bath : Little Black Classic by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics 28
'Those husbands that I had, Three of them were good and two were bad. The three that I call "good" were rich and old...' One of the most bawdy, entertaining and popular stories from The Canterbury Tales. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celeb ...Show more
Troilus and Criseyde by CHAUCER, GEOFFREY
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
The editor's lucid introduction, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations make Troilus and Criseyde easily accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Chaucer or Middle English. Also included is Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, the poignant "sequel" to Troilus and Criseyde from fiftee ...Show more