Canterbury Tales

Type

Book

Authors

Geoffrey Chaucer

ISBN 10

0517632063

ISBN 13

9780517632062

Tags

Ancient & Classical, British & Irish, Contemporary, English Literature

Description

(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. - from Amzon

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