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The Canterbury Tales: Chaucer : Canterbury Tales

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Full Title:

The Canterbury Tales: Chaucer : Canterbury Tales

Contributors:

By (Author) Geoffrey Chaucer

ISBN:

9780460870276

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Imprint:

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Publication Date:

30th September 1990

UK Publication Date:

20th September 1990

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

821.1

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

656

Dimensions:

Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 34mm

Weight:

440g

Description

This new reprint of the existing Everyman CANTERBURY TALES retains the essentialingredients of A C Cawley's highly respected edition,but adds a new prefactory introduction by Professor Malcolm Andrews of The Queen's University Belfast;a new suggested reading list;and a new chronology of Chaucer's life and times.Whether read for study or purely pleasure,the CANTERBURY TALES remains as fresh and enjoyable today as when it was written.

Author Bio

Geoffrey Chaucer, who was born in 1343 and died in 1400, is widely considered to be the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author of a number of works, he is best known today for THE CANTERBURY TALES.

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