Canterbury Tales - Seymour Chwast • BookLikes (ISBN:1408812215)

Canterbury Tales

by: Seymour Chwast (author)

ISBN: 9781408812211 (1408812215)

Edition language: English

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Classics, Humor, Poetry, Short Stories, Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics

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tuirgin rated it

11 years ago

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As much as I enjoyed Seymour Chwast's treatment of Dante's Divine Comedy, his Canterbury Tales never comes to life. Perhaps the success of Chwast's Divine Comedy was due to the inherently graphic nature of much of the Commedia and the sparseness of the comic's text—Chwast's Divine Comedy is somethin...

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Boston Bibliophile rated it

12 years ago

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Meh. I was kind of bored and disappointed by this book. Chwast's adaptation of Canterbury Tales seems really simplistic to me, with drawings that didn't capture my attention or give me any feel for the story. I liked his Dante a lot more and I thought the black and white presentation really didn't d...

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Bettie's Books rated it

14 years ago

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not for me at this time, heh

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MadgeWhitlin rated it

14 years ago

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I can't think of anything bad to say about this. It was great. Hilarious, quick to get through, entertaining... It was great! I won this book from Goodreads First Reads giveaways and I am so glad I did, though I would have probably purchased it had I not won a copy.

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