Canterbury Tales

Canterbury Tales PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Canterbury Tales

Canterbury Tales PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Finding List

Finding List PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 404

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The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation

The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334178X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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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

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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

Fairy Gold PDF Author: Ernest Rhys
Publisher: London : Dent
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Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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A collection of sixty-six Old English fairy tales, fables, romances, poems, and nursery rhymes.

Bulletin

Bulletin PDF Author: Boston Public Library
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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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

The Stories of English PDF Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468306170
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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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

Schoolboy stories, by Ascott R. Hope PDF Author: Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff
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Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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The lucky bag, stories

The lucky bag, stories PDF Author: Richard Rowe
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Languages : en
Pages : 270

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The Story of a Noble Life

The Story of a Noble Life PDF Author: Janet Gordon
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368817493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.