Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Geoffrey Chaucer (ISBN:0679409890)

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		Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
	
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			Geoffrey Chaucer		
	
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more...more
 (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer’s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories told by pilgrims on the way to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury reveal a teeming, vital fourteenth-century English society on the verge of its Renaissance.   less

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Passionate, funny, perverse and sad...what more is there to describe the different tales spun by the mixed group in Chaucer's classic "The Canterbury Tales". Each tale is told from a different person and, since it is a mixed company of nobles and peasants alike, each tale embodies what such status considered to be "The best story". I particular like the Wife of Bath's Tale and The Miller's Tale...more

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