Canterbury Tales: Introduction by Derek Pearsall (Everyman's Library Classics) - Hardcover

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679409890 ISBN 13: 9780679409892

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1992

Synopsis

Lively, 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 Canterbury Tales" gather twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble plowman. A graceful modren translation facing each page of the text allows the contemporary reader to enjoy the fast pace of these selections from "The Canterbury Tales" with the poetry of the Middle English original always at first hand.

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Review:

"The Canterbury Tales was written . . . during what the Middle Ages would have considered Chaucer's old age . . . It is a quite astonishing production . . . [He was] free to experiment with narrative in a more audacious way, to challenge orthodoxies old and yet to be formulated, and to explore, exploit, enrich and subvert all the many available kinds of medieval story." -from the Introduction by Derek Pearsall

From the Publisher:

Contains a selection of the most popular tales, freshly rendered in a lively, accessible translation. Thoroughly edited and extensively annotated. Lavishly produced on natural, high-quality paper, and affordably priced.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679409890
• ISBN 13: 9780679409892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 664