Canterbury Tales
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Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters—including Chaucer himself—are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer's genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales.
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters—including Chaucer himself—are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer's genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales.
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Street Date:
07/09/2013
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English
ISBN:
9781451685565
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Level 8.1, 26 Points
Level 8.1, 26 Points
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NP: Non-Prose
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Geoffrey Chaucer. (2013). Canterbury Tales. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Geoffrey Chaucer. 2013. Canterbury Tales. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. Simon & Schuster, 2013.
MLA Citation (style guide)Geoffrey Chaucer. Canterbury Tales. Simon & Schuster, 2013.
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But it is for The Canterbury Tales that he is best remembered. This masterpiece of English literature moved Aldous Huxley to say, "If I dared to wish for genius, I would ask for the grace to write The Canterbury Tales."
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