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The Canterbury Tales
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Over the years, octogenarian translator Burton Raffel has tackled and conquered many of the most forbidding challenges in world literature: Beowulf, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Don Quixote, the Nibelungenleid. This book finds him grappling quite gracefully with another behemoth, Geoffrey Chaucer's... show more
Over the years, octogenarian translator Burton Raffel has tackled and conquered many of the most forbidding challenges in world literature: Beowulf, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Don Quixote, the Nibelungenleid. This book finds him grappling quite gracefully with another behemoth, Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century classic The Canterbury Tales. For modern readers, the robustness and subtlety of this collection is often diluted by the vagaries of language evolution. With a respectful poetic hand, Raffel retouches Chaucer's minutely realized word portraits, recovering their sheen. A Modern Library translation destined to be both popular and critical acclaimed.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780140424386
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
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Literary Ames
Literary Ames rated it
0.0 The Canterbury Tales
Only read The Pardoner's Prologue & Tale.
Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms
Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms rated it
4.0 The Canterbury Tales
4.5 starsThese tales are amazing, and it is really hard to get that they were written so long ago. There is serious, mystery, fabula, romance and more, and Chaucer's languauge, although sometimes a little heavy for these modern times, is beautiful.
narfna
narfna rated it
4.0 The Canterbury Tales
Every time I re-read something I read as an undergrad, I'm reminded of how stupid I must have been. Adding a star, because this was kind of awesome (once I got used to the Middle English).
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
4.0 The Canterbury Tales
must re-read
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