[Read free ebook] The Canterbury Tales (original-spelling Middle English edition) (Penguin Classics)
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| #55288 in Books | Penguin Classics | 2005-08-30 | 2005-08-30 | Original language:Middle English | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x2.40 x5.10l,1.88 | File Name: 014042234X | 1328 pages | Great product!
||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A Tale Telling Contest|By Ron Penn|Here is a brief synopsis.
At the Tabard Inn, a tavern in Southwark, near London, the narrator joins a company of twenty-nine pilgrims. The pilgrims, like the narrator, are traveling to the shrine of the martyr Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury. The narrator gives a descriptive account of twenty-seven of these pilgrims, including a||“A delight . . . [Raffel’s translation] provides more opportunities to savor the counterpoint of Chaucer’s earthy humor against passages of piercingly beautiful lyric poetry.”—Kirkus s||“Masterly . . . This new tran
One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, in the original Middle English
The Canterbury Tales depicts a storytelling competition between pilgrims drawn from all ranks of society. The tales are as various as the pilgrims themselves, encompassing comedy, pathos, tragedy, and cynicism. The Miller and the Reeve express their mutual antagonism in a pair of comic stories combining sex and trickery; in “The Shipman&rsqu...
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