The Canterbury Tales
This collection of medieval stories, each told by a different traveler on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket at Canterbury, includes portions of tales told by the Reeve, Pardoner, Miller, Nun, and the Wife of Bath. 2 cassettes.
This collection of medieval stories, each told by a different traveler on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket at Canterbury, includes portions of tales told by the Reeve, Pardoner, Miller, Nun, and the Wife of Bath. 2 cassettes.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553210132 (0553210130)
Pages no: 421
Edition language: English
Chancer's Canterbury Tales have always been classics. This version just made them a little more fun for me. I love the mid-evil, and hilarious collection of the 9 tales, along with the comic-style illustrations. Students in 5th and 6th grades will get the most from this selection. This book work...
As a freshman in high school, I took Brit Lit this year. We read A Tale of Two Cities and Lord of the Flies over the summer, and I absolutely could not stand (or understand) ATTC, and LOTF was not much better. We started off the year with Beowulf, which was decent but a little to predictable for my ...
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales consists of a collection of stories framed as being told during a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral. Each in this company of about 30 pilgrims is to tell a tale on the journey there--the one judged to have told the best to get a free meal. In structure, and sometimes ...
There is so much one can do with a text like this. It can be analyzed from many different points of view, if you're an scholar; or it can be read just for pleasure, if you're a casual reader.Wright's translation is an accessible one and as he declares himself at the end of the introduction "this ver...
Had started reading with great enthusiasm, and it' sad that my enthusiasm died halfway. Maybe I'm just not meant for these things :",",,,,,1,,,Good"
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