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Canterbury Tales: Introduction by Derek Pearsall Hardback - 1992

by Geoffrey Chaucer; Introduction by Derek Pearsall

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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 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.

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  • Title Canterbury Tales: Introduction by Derek Pearsall
  • Author Geoffrey Chaucer; Introduction by Derek Pearsall
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Fifth Printing
  • Pages 664
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Everyman's Library, New York
  • Publication date 1992-06-30
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780679409892 / 0679409890
  • Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.34 x 5.4 x 1.47 in (21.18 x 13.72 x 3.73 cm)
  • Reading level 500
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91053184
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.1

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“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

About the author

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), often referred to as "the grandfather of English literature," is invariably ranked with Shakespeare and Milton as one of the three greatest poets of the English language. His masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, has been a touchstone for English-language poetry for more than half a millennium and is one of the most widely read works in the Western canon.
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