Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc
ISBN: 1608439356
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Canterbury Tales: Literary Touchstone Classic - Revised Edition
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc
ISBN: 1608439356
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc
ISBN: 1608439356
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101155639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer’s classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ranging from comedy to tragedy, pious sermon to ribald farce, heroic adventure to passionate romance, the tales serve not only as a summation of the sensibility of the Middle Ages but as a representation of the drama of the human condition. Ackroyd’s contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters—as well as explicitly rendering the naughty good humor of the writer whose comedy influenced Fielding and Dickens—yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer’s verse. This retelling is sure to delight modern readers and bring a new appreciation to those already familiar with the classic tales.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101155639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer’s classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ranging from comedy to tragedy, pious sermon to ribald farce, heroic adventure to passionate romance, the tales serve not only as a summation of the sensibility of the Middle Ages but as a representation of the drama of the human condition. Ackroyd’s contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters—as well as explicitly rendering the naughty good humor of the writer whose comedy influenced Fielding and Dickens—yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer’s verse. This retelling is sure to delight modern readers and bring a new appreciation to those already familiar with the classic tales.
Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text)
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Five Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: OXFORD
ISBN: 9780194247580
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.
Publisher: OXFORD
ISBN: 9780194247580
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.
Chaucer's Tale
Author: Paul Strohm
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143127837
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"A lively microbiography of Geoffrey Chaucer, the "father of English literature", focusing on the surprising and fascinating story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of the Canterbury Tales"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143127837
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"A lively microbiography of Geoffrey Chaucer, the "father of English literature", focusing on the surprising and fascinating story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of the Canterbury Tales"--Provided by publisher.
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Canterbury Tales, The New Translation
Author: Gerald J. Davis
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365188019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England. Complete and Unabridged.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365188019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England. Complete and Unabridged.
Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Canterbury Tales: Side By Side
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc
ISBN: 9781580495202
Category : Canterbury (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc
ISBN: 9781580495202
Category : Canterbury (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Refugee Tales
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN: 1910974234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across… A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape… An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking – writes to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail sentence and indefinite detention… These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass – its refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain’s policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims’ stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN: 1910974234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across… A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape… An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking – writes to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail sentence and indefinite detention… These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass – its refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain’s policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims’ stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.