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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679409890
ISBN-139780679409892
eBay Product ID (ePID)57577
Product Key Features
Book TitleCanterbury Tales : Introduction by Derek Pearsall
Number of Pages664 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMedieval, Literary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year1992
GenrePoetry, Fiction
AuthorGeoffrey Chaucer
Book SeriesEveryman's Library Classics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight24.4 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN91-053184
Reviews"The Canterbury Taleswas written . . . during what the Middle Ages would have considered Chaucer's old age . . . It is a quite astonishing production . . . [He was] free to experiment with narrative in a more audacious way, to challenge orthodoxies old and yet to be formulated, and to explore, exploit, enrich and subvert all the many available kinds of medieval story." from the Introduction by Derek Pearsall, " The Canterbury Tales was written . . . during what the Middle Ages would have considered Chaucer's old age . . . It is a quite astonishing production . . . [He was] free to experiment with narrative in a more audacious way, to challenge orthodoxies old and yet to be formulated, and to explore, exploit, enrich and subvert all the many available kinds of medieval story." from the Introduction by Derek Pearsall
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal821.1
SynopsisThe 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 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPR1924
