Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Finding List
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334178X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334178X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.
Publisher and Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Fairy Gold
Author: Ernest Rhys
Publisher: London : Dent
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A collection of sixty-six Old English fairy tales, fables, romances, poems, and nursery rhymes.
Publisher: London : Dent
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A collection of sixty-six Old English fairy tales, fables, romances, poems, and nursery rhymes.
Bulletin
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
The Stories of English
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468306170
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
A groundbreaking history of worldwide English in all its dialects, differences, and linguistic delights: “Informative . . . distinctive . . . a spirited celebration.” —The Guardian In this “well-informed and appealing” work (Publishers Weekly), David Crystal puts aside the usual focus on “standard” English, and instead provides a startlingly original view of where the richness, creativity, and diversity of the language truly lies—in the accents and dialects of nonstandard English users all over the world. Whatever their regional, social, or ethnic background, each group has a story worth telling, whether it is in Scotland or Somerset, South Africa or Singapore. He reminds us that for several hundred wonderful years, there was no such thing as “incorrect” English—and traces the evolution of the language from a few thousand Anglo-Saxons to the 1.5 billion people who speak it today. Moving from Beowulf to Chaucer to Shakespeare to Dickens and the present day, Crystal puts regional speech and writing at center stage, giving a sense of the social realities behind the development of English. This significant shift in perspective enables us to understand for the first time the importance of everyday, previously marginalized, voices in our language—and provides an argument too for the way English should be taught in the future. “A work of impeccable scholarship [that] could easily serve as a standard textbook for students of linguistics, but Mr. Crystal, reaching out to a more general audience, recognizes that even the most avid reader might flinch at the sections on Old Norse grammatical influence. Cleverly, he has sprinkled the book with little digressions, set apart in boxes, that address historical mysteries, strange loanwords, interesting etymologies and the like.” —The New York Times “Learned and often provocative . . . demonstrates repeatedly that common conceptions about language are often historically inaccurate—split infinitives bothered no one until recently (likewise sentence-ending prepositions).” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Simply the best introductory history of the English language family that we have. The plan of the book is ingenious, the writing lively, the exposition clear, and the scholarly standard uncompromisingly high.” —J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468306170
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
A groundbreaking history of worldwide English in all its dialects, differences, and linguistic delights: “Informative . . . distinctive . . . a spirited celebration.” —The Guardian In this “well-informed and appealing” work (Publishers Weekly), David Crystal puts aside the usual focus on “standard” English, and instead provides a startlingly original view of where the richness, creativity, and diversity of the language truly lies—in the accents and dialects of nonstandard English users all over the world. Whatever their regional, social, or ethnic background, each group has a story worth telling, whether it is in Scotland or Somerset, South Africa or Singapore. He reminds us that for several hundred wonderful years, there was no such thing as “incorrect” English—and traces the evolution of the language from a few thousand Anglo-Saxons to the 1.5 billion people who speak it today. Moving from Beowulf to Chaucer to Shakespeare to Dickens and the present day, Crystal puts regional speech and writing at center stage, giving a sense of the social realities behind the development of English. This significant shift in perspective enables us to understand for the first time the importance of everyday, previously marginalized, voices in our language—and provides an argument too for the way English should be taught in the future. “A work of impeccable scholarship [that] could easily serve as a standard textbook for students of linguistics, but Mr. Crystal, reaching out to a more general audience, recognizes that even the most avid reader might flinch at the sections on Old Norse grammatical influence. Cleverly, he has sprinkled the book with little digressions, set apart in boxes, that address historical mysteries, strange loanwords, interesting etymologies and the like.” —The New York Times “Learned and often provocative . . . demonstrates repeatedly that common conceptions about language are often historically inaccurate—split infinitives bothered no one until recently (likewise sentence-ending prepositions).” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Simply the best introductory history of the English language family that we have. The plan of the book is ingenious, the writing lively, the exposition clear, and the scholarly standard uncompromisingly high.” —J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Schoolboy stories, by Ascott R. Hope
Author: Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The lucky bag, stories
Author: Richard Rowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Story of a Noble Life
Author: Janet Gordon
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368817493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368817493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.