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The Canterbury Tales: A Prose Version in Modern English - Vintage Classics Reprint edition
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales: A Prose Version in Modern English - Vintage Classics Reprint edition
Geoffrey Chaucer
David Wright?s classic translation brings Chaucer?s masterpiece of Middle English storytelling into clear modern prose. The Canterbury Tales has entertained readers for centuries, with its comic animal fables, moral allegories, miniature epics of courtly love, and rollicking erotic farces that bring fourteenth-century England to life on every page. The gloriously varied stories, narrated by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, are peopled with saints, sinners, and ordinary mortals in a vivid panorama of the medieval world. This prose translation renders these tales as accessible and irresistible to modern readers as they were to Chaucer?s contemporaries.
352 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 12, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9780307743534 |
Publishers | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Pages | 352 |
Dimensions | 202 × 132 × 22 mm · 330 g |
Language | English |
Translator | Wright, David |
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