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At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned, fantastic, pious, melancholy and lewd, and together offer an unrivalled glimpse into the mind and spirit of medieval England.
About the Author
Born in London to a wine merchant, Geoffrey Chaucer (c1340-1400) became a royal servant and travelled as a diplomat to France, Spain and Italy. As well as being famed for his translations, his own work includes Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess and The Legend of Good Women.
Jill Mann has been Professor Medieval & Renaissance English at Cambridge University, and most recently Notre Dame Professor of English. She is the author Feminizing Chaucer (2002), and co-editor (with Piero Boitani) of The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer (2nd edn. 2003).
Jill Mann has been Professor Medieval & Renaissance English at Cambridge University, and most recently she was Notre Dame Professor of English. She is the author Feminizing Chaucer (2002), and co-editor (with Piero Boitani) of The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer (2nd edn. 2003).
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49 of 51 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The two reviews currently available for this item are irrelevant (and misleading to potential buyers) insofar as they refer to the Nevill Cogill translation of the Canterbury Tales (which is another, quite different, volume in the Penguin Classics series). My completely new edition provides Chaucer's original Middle English text, with glosses on the page, a large glossary, and full notes--so this is for those who want to tackle the original (well worth the trouble!)
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am a university student currently studying English literature, and have found this edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales very accurate and helpful. I would highly recommend for anyone who wants to read the Tales with access to both a very helpful Chronology, Introduction, Notes on the text, and a very thorough Glossary at the back. It is also printed in full Medieval English, accurate to how Chaucer wrote it - in as much as it can be - but with very helpful word and phrase translations at the bottom of every page, for those who us who are not fluent!
Not only that, but for those who wish to read Chaucer purely for pleasure and not study, the notes and translations do not assume that the reader will have developed a cumulative knowledge of medieval language the further into the book you go. So for those of you who just fancy reading your favorite 'Tales' without having to plowing your way through the entire 1200+ page novel, will still be able to understand and appreciate them as much as anyone else who has read straight through from the beginning.
All in all in my opinion, a very concise, informative and accurate edition of 'The Canterbury Tales', that I would recommend to anyone who fancies reading/owning Chaucer most famous and unfinished piece of work, for whatever reason.
Not only that, but for those who wish to read Chaucer purely for pleasure and not study, the notes and translations do not assume that the reader will have developed a cumulative knowledge of medieval language the further into the book you go. So for those of you who just fancy reading your favorite 'Tales' without having to plowing your way through the entire 1200+ page novel, will still be able to understand and appreciate them as much as anyone else who has read straight through from the beginning.
All in all in my opinion, a very concise, informative and accurate edition of 'The Canterbury Tales', that I would recommend to anyone who fancies reading/owning Chaucer most famous and unfinished piece of work, for whatever reason.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Kindle formatting turns this book into a building site of footnote numbers, line numbers, indented and double indented margins. I suppose all this information might suit an academic reader, but it has lost the clarity of the printed edition.
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Completely misleading
This claimed to use middle English spelling. It uses modern spelling. The spelling is part of the flavour of the piece and is fairly important.
Published 7 months ago by Wz DD
Thoroughly recommended
Thoroughly recommend this edition - not a translation, but with original spelling.
Lots of notes to help, but they are not obtrusive, and it turns out to be not as
hard... Read more
Lots of notes to help, but they are not obtrusive, and it turns out to be not as
hard... Read more
Published on 14 May 2010 by B. Kesselman
And God bring all of us to kingdom come.
This is an excellent translation of a marvellous work. I was amazed at the sophistication of Chaucer's writing and found the ideas in the tales very modern and expressed with great... Read more
Published on 8 Sep 2006 by molondas
Travelling mercies
In Chaucer's work, 'The Canterbury Tales', perhaps the greatest of English literary works from the period of the language known as Middle English, there is one particular piece... Read more
Published on 6 Jan 2006 by Kurt Messick
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