Selection: Interlinear Translation (Canterbury Tales) - Softcover

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812000390 ISBN 13: 9780812000399

Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Inc.,U.S., 1977

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:

"Readers coming to 'The Canterbury Tales' for the first time should...buy Vincent Hopper's interlinear translation...To my knowledge, Hopper's rendering is as close, as word for word, as any translation of 'The Canterbury Tales'... It places the new word directly under the original word -- a device that makes the syntax feel old-fashioned but that will also quickly teach you Middle English, which is not hard." --Joan Acocella, The New Yorker "Builds a needed bridge for the general student between the 20th and 14th centuries." --Kent Williams, Troy State University, AL

About this edition

• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0812000390
• ISBN 13: 9780812000399
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Hopper Vincent F.