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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Hardcover)

by Marcia Williams (Author, Editor, Illustrator)
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  • Hardcover: 48 pages
  • Publisher: Walker Books Ltd (5 Feb 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0744570077
  • ISBN-13: 978-0744570076
  • Product Dimensions: 32 x 25.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 148,332 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Williams is one of our very best retellers of the classics." The Independent on Sunday"


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This title contains a selection of well-loved tales from Chaucer's literary masterpiece retold in humorous comic-strip style. Travel back to Medieval England and join Chaucer and his band of Canterbury pilgrims in this wonderful introduction to one of Britain's greatest literary legacies. These nine well-loved tales, from a host of colourful characters - the Knight, the Miller, the Reeve, the Wife of Bath, the Summoner, the Clerk, the Franklin, the Pardoner and the Nun's Priest - are brought to life with Marcia Williams' trademark witty, comic-strip art, allowing this classic text to be enjoyed by all ages.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic cheeky introduction to a literary legacy., 20 Feb 2008
By ELH Browning "Esther-Lou" (Kingston Bagpuize, Oxon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
This brilliant picture book tells nine of the better known tales from Chaucer's medieval classic, each one energetically repackaged into a brief, lively episode with simple modern-English prose and bright witty comic-strip illustrations.
The original Canterbury Tales was a collection of stories written by Chaucer in the 14th century, in Middle English and mostly in verse. Those tales, written for adults not children, were a mixture of originals and retellings within an outer story - a group of very different characters on a pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury each told a tale to while away the time on the journey.
This book is an inspirational approach as it makes this classic text enticing to a wide range of twenty-first century readers. It's is a wonderful bluffer's guide for adults who would like to know a bit more about these famous Canterbury tales without wading through 600 pages of medieval original. Chaucer has hitherto passed me by, and I bought this book for me. However, with its beautiful light-hearted illustrations, it's also a lovely taster or starting point for anyone from age 5. My five and seven year old children enjoyed it as much as I did and, though the tales are tastefully told, two of the nine stores have an integral farting or bottom incident which always help keep a little reader entertained. In addition to the main text, the additional speech bubbles are in old English (with the tip to read them aloud) so you can get a taster of the language back in the fourteenth century without having to wade through unfamiliar spelling and vocabulary.
This is an absolute masterpiece making Chaucer delightfully accessible to teenies & oldies alike with good humour and flair.
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