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The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
The Canterbury Tales - Oxford World's Classics
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer, David Wright, Christopher Cannon
Beyond all doubt the greatest work of English literature before Shakespeare, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales brings together an unforgettable group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, pilgrims who came from all ranks of society, from the crusading Knight and burly Miller to the worldly Monk and the famously lusty Wife of Bath. Their tales are...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199599028
ISBN-10: 0199599025
Publication Date: 10/1/2011
Pages: 560
Edition: New
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David Wright.

Chaucer's most celebrated work, The Canterbury Tales (c.1387), in which a group of pilgrims entertain each other with stories on the road to Canterbury, is a masterpiece of narration, description, and character portrayal. The tellers and their tales are as fresh and vivid today as they were six centuries ago.
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 nbrett avatar reviewed The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics) on
Very easy to read translation, but I wonder how accurate it is. A number of expressions that seem too colloquial in today's world seem to have crept in and I doubt Chaucer would have used them. Will check against the original Middle English which is actually not that hard to understand.


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