Canterbury Tales (Enriched Classics (Simon & Schuster))

by Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), R.M.Lumiansky (Author)

• New

  Mass Market Paperback
  1990

  $11.83

  Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Canterbury Tales gather twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble plowman. A graceful modren translation facing each page of the text allows the contemporary reader to enjoy the fast pace of these selections from The Canterbury Tales with the poetry of the Middle English original always at first hand.

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.36

• Used

  Hardcover
  1969

  $3.36

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $11.13

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $18.47

  These tales bring together a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire.