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The Canterbury Tales - Seymour Chwast
The Canterbury Tales
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Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles, of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travelers, including a battle-worn knight, a sweetly pretentious prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath, and an emaciated scholar-clerk, come up with a plan to pass... show more
Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles, of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travelers, including a battle-worn knight, a sweetly pretentious prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath, and an emaciated scholar-clerk, come up with a plan to pass time on the journey to Thomas à Becket's shrine by telling stories. The twenty-four tales, which range from high romance set in ancient Greece to low comedy in contemporary England, are adapted into graphic novel form by Seymour Chwast-a pitch-perfect transposition of Chaucer's pointed satire. Chwast's illustrations relate tales of trust and treachery, of piety and bawdiness, in an engaging style that will appeal to those who have enjoyed The Canterbury Tales for years, and those for whom this is a first, delectable introduction.Praise for Dante's Divine Comedy:"With all due respect to Dante, this is Chwast's Divine Comedy…[Chwast] makes the Divine Comedy irresistibly comic and inspirationally transcendent."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"With his signature mix of humor, artistry, and high-level design, [Chwast] conveys a breathtaking amount of information in clear black and white line drawings…Chwast does a stunning job of telling Dante's story in his own brilliant style."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A clever reimagining of a classic…The lamentations of the damned were never so much fun." -Entertainment Weekly"Diabolically witty, devilishly expressive cartoon drawings…An accessible introduction to The Divine Comedy-a sort of high-end, WHAM-POW Cliff's Notes…Fiendishly entertaining."-NPR.org
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781608194872 (1608194876)
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
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tuirgin
tuirgin rated it
2.0 The Canterbury Tales
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...
Boston Bibliophile
Boston Bibliophile rated it
2.0 The Canterbury Tales
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...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
0.0
not for me at this time, heh
MadgeWhitlin
MadgeWhitlin rated it
5.0 The Canterbury Tales
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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