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Geoffrey Chaucer
Book List in Order: 35 titles
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The Portable Chaucer
- Jun-1977
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In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommod...
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Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath
- Jul-2008
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Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to st...
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Complete Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. Vii
- Nov-2008
- / General Fiction
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It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343â€"c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. His writings―which were popular during his own lifetime with the nobility as well as with th...
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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Volume III - House of Fame, Legend of Good Women, Astrolabe, Sources of Canterbury Tales
- Nov-2008
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Chaucer's Dream Visions
- Jan-2012
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Compiled here are some of Chaucer's shorter poems. These poems are all written using the Dream Vision. To name a few of these poems: The Book of Duchesse, The Parliament of Fowls, The Legend of Good Women, The House of Fame and other short poems....
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The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems
- Jul-2012
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• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 18 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.• The classic collection of interwoven tales in verse, presented in modern English for re...
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The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems
- Aug-2012
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An oddly diverse group of twenty-nine people meet at an inn. Each of them is on a pilgrimage to a martyr's shrine in Canterbury. The Host suggests the strange bunch journey together and tell stories to pass the time. The group heads off, including a ...
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The Canterbuy Tales
- Feb-2013
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While Geoffrey Chaucer composed several magnificent works of poetry, his reputation as “the father of English literature” rests mainly on "The Canterbury Tales," a group of stories told by assorted pilgrims en route to the shrine of Thomas à Bec...
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The Complete Canterbury Tales
- Sep-2013
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Although it was never completed, The Canterbury Tales has succeeded in cementing a place as one of the earliest masterpieces of English literature. Including plates from the celebrated Kelmscott Chaucer, this unique clothbound edition in its own slip...
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The Clerk's Tale
- Dec-2013
- / General Fiction
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When an eclectic group of pilgrims take turns telling tales while on the road to Canterbury Cathedral, the Clerk of Oxford, a learned man, sets out to tell a moral and educational story for his fellow pilgrims. He tells the tale of Griselda, a beauti...
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Dryden's Palamon and Arcite
- Mar-2015
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Palamon and Arcite is part of Fables, Ancient and Modern written by John Dryden and published in 1700. Palamon and Arcite is a translation of The Knight's Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Although the plot line is identical, Dryden...
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Canterbury Tales, Volume 1
- Sep-2015
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Th... -
The Canterbury Tales
"""Whoever best acquits himself, and tellsThe most amusing and instructive tale,Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...""In Chaucer''s most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London...
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Chaucer
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's 'de Consolatione Philosophiae'
" ...] (Knightes Tale, vol. ii. p. 92.) For al ing at is cleped inperfit . is proued inperfit by e amenusynge of perfeccioun . or of ing at is perfit . and her-of come it . at in euery ing general . yif at . at men seen any ing at is inperfit . certy...
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Chaucer's Troylus And Cryseyde
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Part
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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The Legend Of Good Women
The poem is the third longest of Chaucer’s works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout the Can...
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The Parlament Of Foules
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
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The Prologue
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The Squire's Tale
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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The Wife of Bath and Other Cantebury Tales
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide....
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The Knight's Tale
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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The Miller's Tale
Taking the stage after the Knight and his lofty tale of courtly love, the drunken miller regales the pilgrims with the account of a young scholar, Nicholas, who persuades his aged landlord’s beautiful young wife to go to bed with him. Having succes...
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The Nun's Priest's Tale
Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to st...
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The Pardoner's Tale
When an eclectic group of pilgrims take turns telling tales while on the road to Canterbury Cathedral, the Pardoner begins his tale with a confession -- that he preaches against greed but swindles churchgoers by pressuring them into buying fake relig...
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The Selected Canterbury Tales
A poetically faithful and compelling translation of Chaucer's classic. In the tradition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Marie Borroff's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher's The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively, and readable ...
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Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight. This is a modern English prose translation intended as an ...
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The Wife of Bath
The Wyves Tale of Bathe and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of hi...
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The Wife of Bath's Tale
When an eclectic group of pilgrims take turns telling tales while on the road to Canterbury Cathedral, the Wife of Bath, an older woman who has been married and widowed five times, tells her tale . . . eventually. But first she shares her opinions on...