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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Steck-Vaughn Co
Publication date January 1, 1991
Binding Paperback
Book category Juvenile Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780811469579
ISBN-10 0811469573
Original list price $36.80
Other format details juvenile
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The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer’s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories told by pilgrims on the way to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury reveal a teeming, vital fourteenth-century English society on the verge of its Renaissance.

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.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9780679413226
 
With Geoffrey Chaucer | from Random House Inc (July 1, 1992)
9780679413226 | details & prices | List price $20.00
Paperback
Book cover for 9780192781239 Book cover for 9780192815972 Book cover for 9780521311595 Book cover for 9780811469579
 
With Geoffrey Chaucer, Victor G. Ambrus (other contributor), Geraldine McCaughrean | from Oxford Univ Pr (April 2, 1998)
9780192781239 | details & prices | 116 pages | 7.75 × 11.25 × 0.25 in. | Rec. grade levels 4-6 | 1.10 lbs | List price $12.95
This edition also contains Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874-1900
About: Introduces students to a story about a group of pilgrims going to Canterbury
The price comparison is for this edition
With Geoffrey Chaucer | from Steck-Vaughn Co (January 1, 1991)
9780811469579 | details & prices | List price $36.80
About: The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer’s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification.
With Geoffrey Chaucer, Winthrop Wetherbee | from Cambridge Univ Pr (December 1, 1989)
9780521311595 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $15.99
With Daniel G. Kirkpatrick, Geoffrey Chaucer, Kirk B. Jensen, David Wright | from Oxford Univ Pr (June 5, 1986)
9780192815972 | details & prices | 4.75 × 7.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $4.95
This edition also contains The Hospital Executive's Guide to Emergency Department Management, The Hospital Executive’s Guide to Emergency Department Management
About: Provides a modern verse translation of the story of a group of pilgrims who pass the time during their journey by telling each other tales

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