This Norton Critical Edition includes:
• The medieval masterpiece’s most popular tales, including—new to the Third Edition—The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun’s Prologue and Tale.
• Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface and a guide to Chaucer’s language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson.
• Sources and analogues arranged by tale.
• Fourteen critical essays, eight of them new to the Third Edition.
• A Chronology, a Short Glossary and a Selected Bibliography.
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
ISBN: 9781324000563
Number of pages: 720
Dimensions: 236 x 145 x 23 mm
Weight: 730 g
Language: English
Edition: Third Edition
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho
The Divine Comedy
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Odyssey
The Waste Land and Other Poems
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Metamorphoses
The Odyssey
The Canterbury Tales
The Prophet
Selected Poems
This re-telling of the Canterbury Tales is a really good read. I'd suffered rather than enjoyed abridged versions of Chaucers tales during English Lit in school where the focus was all on the "old... More
I ordered this book on line to be sent to a friend which was greatly appreciated. She enjoyed the book very much and I was very pleased with the service and how quick it arrived to her.
This edition simplifies the text so that it is easy to understand and follow but still feels fresh and straight out of the 14th century.
The Prologue, Miller’s, Summoner’s, Friar’s and Reeve’s Tales are wonderfully...
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