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Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
The "Canterbury Tales" were originally planned to include over 100 stories, but Chaucer completed only 22. The device of using a pilgrimage as a setting for the telling of tales was not uncommon--medieval pilgrims traditionally told stories to liven up the long trek--but Chaucer's version is infinitely more sophisticated, matching the teller and ...
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Troilus and Criseyde
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Despite his resolve to avoid romantic entanglements, the poor Trojan prince Troilus falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde. After a brief affair, the lovers are separated when Criseyde is sent to the Greek camp and betrays Troilus by falling in love with the Greek Diomede. Heartbroken, Troilus fights to his death at the hand of Achilles. ...
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Selected Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Delightful collection includes the General Prologue plus three of the most popular tales: "The Knight's Tale," "The Miller's Prologue and Tale," and "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale." In modern English.
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The Riverside Chaucer
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Robert Pratt, F N Robinson, Geoffrey Chaucer (Editor)
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Chanticleer and the fox
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This is Chaucer's familiar fable of a vain cock and a shrewd fox, retold and illustrated for children. The pictures give a colorful glimpse of medieval life.
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The Canterbury Tales: Nine Tales and the General Prologue: Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism
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Geoffrey Chaucer, V A Kolve (Editor), Glending Olson (Editor)
The "Canterbury Tales" were originally planned to include over 100 stories, but Chaucer completed only 22. The device of using a pilgrimage as a setting for the telling of tales was not uncommon--medieval pilgrims traditionally told stories to liven up the long trek--but Chaucer's version is infinitely more sophisticated, matching the teller and ...
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent F Hopper (Translator)
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 ...
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Troilus and Cressida
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Geoffrey Chaucer, George Philip Krapp
Remarkable for his beauty and bravery, the warrior Troilus is an engaging youth who lives, and eventually dies, for Cressida, a virtuous, tender-hearted woman driven to infidelity by circumstance. Regarded by many as Chaucer's most noble work of art, "Troilus and Cressida" is an outstanding choice for readers of mythology and medieval poetry.
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The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer
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THE COMPLETE POETRY AND PROSE OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER is intended to make Chaucer's texts accessible with a minimum of scholary interference. The critical, biographical, and linguistic essays are grouped at the end so as not to impede the approach to the text. By doing so, the student is able to enjoy the richness and humor of The Canterbury Tales as ...
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Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
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A well-established and respected series with titles in the original Middle English.
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The works of Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Legend of Good Women
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Geoffrey Chaucer
After his unflattering portrayal of Crisyde as an unfaithful woman, Chaucer was commissioned--it is not known by whom--to balance it with the stories of women who were famous for their steadfastness. The somewhat mixed result is "The Legend of Good Women".
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The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Theodore Morrison (Editor)
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Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
GENERAL INTRODUCTION. i. Objects in view in preparing this edition. 2. Romaunt of the Rose. 3. The Minor Poems Canon of Chaucers works. 4. A Compleint to his Lady the Former Age Merciless Beautee Balade to Rosemounde AgainstWomen Unconstaunt Complaints. 5. Boethius. 6. Troilus. 7. The House of Fame. 8. The Legend of Good Women. 9. The Astrolabe. ...
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The Riverside Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. Benson
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Wife of Bath
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative "Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism" series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, ...
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Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Percy Mackaye (Editor)
The illustrious work of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, are presented herein as a modern rendering into prose of the Prologue and ten tales. The barrier of obsolete speech is the occasion for this rendering of the Canterbury Tales in English, easily intelligible today. Mr. Mackaye presents a representative portion of Chaucer's unfinished ...
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The Canterbury tales; a selection.
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Donald Roy Howard
The "Canterbury Tales" were originally planned to include over 100 stories, but Chaucer completed only 22. The device of using a pilgrimage as a setting for the telling of tales was not uncommon--medieval pilgrims traditionally told stories to liven up the long trek--but Chaucer's version is infinitely more sophisticated, matching the teller and ...
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Chaucer's Major Poetry
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Albert C Baugh (Editor)
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The Canterbury Tales: Complete
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry Benson
The "Canterbury Tales" were originally planned to include over 100 stories, but Chaucer completed only 22. The device of using a pilgrimage as a setting for the telling of tales was not uncommon--medieval pilgrims traditionally told stories to liven up the long trek--but Chaucer's version is infinitely more sophisticated, matching the teller and ...
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The miller's tale
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Wynne Ross
Taking the stage after the Knight and his lofty tale of courtly love, the drunken miller regales the pilgrims with the account of a young scholar, Nicholas, who persuades his aged landlord's beautiful young wife to go to bed with him. Having successfully duped the husband and made his conquest, he finds himself the butt of his own practical joke ...
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Love Visions
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Brian Stone (Translator)
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The general prologue to the Canterbury tales
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Cambridge School Chaucer is a series exploring The Canterbury Tales and Chaucer??'s world through activities which challenge and inspire students.
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The Canterbury Tales: Illustrated Edition
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translator)
The "Canterbury Tales" were originally planned to include over 100 stories, but Chaucer completed only 22. The device of using a pilgrimage as a setting for the telling of tales was not uncommon--medieval pilgrims traditionally told stories to liven up the long trek--but Chaucer's version is infinitely more sophisticated, matching the teller and ...
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The knight's tale
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Geoffrey Chaucer
A new edition of this popular title in the series Selected Tales from Chaucer.
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