The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Total Pages: 963
Release: 2016-03-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1681959089

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire, The more it burns the more is its desire To burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives. ” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales are collection of stories by Chaucer, each attributed to a fictional medieval pilgrim.

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House
Total Pages: 177
Release: 1988-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780877549062

A collection of nine critical essays on Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale" arranged in chronological order of publication.

The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
Author: G. Chaucer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2016-06-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1316615480

Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.

The Canterbury Puzzles

The Canterbury Puzzles
Author: H. E. Dudeney
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2002-10-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0486425584

This book includes 110 puzzles, not as individual problems but as incidents in connected stories. The first 31 are amusingly posed by pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Additional puzzles are presented using different characters. Many require only the ability to exercise logical or visual skills; others offer a stimulating challenge to the mathematically advanced.

The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation

The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 039334178X

Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.

Modern Critical Interpretations Set, 83-Volumes

Modern Critical Interpretations Set, 83-Volumes
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
Total Pages:
Release: 2007-06-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780791096864

" Presents important and scholarly criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature" The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism" Contains notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index" Introductory essay by Harold Bloom