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The Chaucer Story Book
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781542853040
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Jan 30 2017
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A masterful retelling-in modern English-of a selection of The Canterbury Tales, one of the English language's most popular and long-lasting literary works.
Written at the end of the fourteenth century in Middle English and published as the Tales of Caunterbury, Geoffrey Chaucer's work has been credited with popularizing the literary use of vernacular English, rather than French or Latin. This vernacular was, however, Middle English, and still moderately difficult for the modern English reader.
This version takes the most popular tales from The Canterbury Tales, and retells them in a style and language designed to make them accessible to the modern reader. The tales, converted from their original prose, are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark in London to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.
In these tales the reader will learn of courtly love, high adventure at sea and on land, Roman heroes, the murder of a Christian boy by Jews, the grisly end of a gang of robbers, moral lessons on love and beauty, the drawing down to hell of a corrupt church official, the testing of a Piedmont nobleman's wife's loyalty, Genghis Khan (Cambyuskan in Chaucer's text), the trickery of an alchemist, and much more.
Humor, pathos, character-drawing, mischievous satire, and love of nature . . . all these qualities are found abundantly in the poetry of Chaucer. . .-from the author's preface.
This new edition has been completely reset and contains all the original illustrations.
Front cover illustration: Chaucer from the Ellesmere manuscript.
ContentsAt the Tabard Inn
The Knight's Tale
The Man of Law's Tale
The Prioress's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Friar's Tale
The Clerk's Tale
The Squire's Tale
The Franklin's Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
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