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The Canterbury Tales - Community Reviews back

by Nick Bantock, Geoffrey Chaucer, Peter Ackroyd
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Bookin' It
Bookin' It rated it 8 years ago
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...
Books are Friends
Books are Friends rated it 11 years ago
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 ...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 11 years ago
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 ...
ElvenStar
ElvenStar rated it 12 years ago
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...
Munira @ In Vogue with Books
Munira @ In Vogue with Books rated it 12 years ago
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"
Bashara Likes Books
Bashara Likes Books rated it 13 years ago
**Review for Marcia Williams picture book version of The Canterbury Tales.First, let me say that this is worth reading simply for the delight of seeing The Miller's Tale in comic strip format. My daughter can't get enough of it and has probably re-read it no less than twenty times.Second, I am kind ...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 13 years ago
Dear Duke Thesus, What is it with you and threatening women with death during your wedding? Do you think it is romantic?Dear Wife of Bath, You go girl!Dear Chanticlear,Foxes like chickens in all the wrong ways. Just saying.Dear Mr. Ackroyd, World's Greatest Renassiance Man,I've read Chaucer in the...
Cassandra Reads
Cassandra Reads rated it 14 years ago
Read in high school. I don't really remember it well enough to write a review.
Reading Adler's List
Reading Adler's List rated it 14 years ago
Alternating between bawdy and romantic with some fables interspersed, The Canterbury Tales merrily rambles through medieval mores. Chaucer’s seemingly random collection of poems draw inspiration from ltalian contemporaries as well as the Greek and Roman tradition. The stories occasionally moralize...
Edward
Edward rated it 14 years ago
Introduction: Chaucer's Life - Chaucer's Works--The Canterbury TalesNotes
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