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1939014962London: Limited Editions Club 1939. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown with offsetting to the facing endpaper. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Tall quarto 7-1/2" x 12-1/4" bound in quarter white rough natural linen and pale green boards decorated with a coat of arms on the front cover. Chaucer's classic verse romance has been rendered into modern English verse by G. P. Krapp. Designed by George W. Jones who has provided a brilliant two-page title composition using vintage historiated initial letters printed in three colors on a deeply toned English rag paper. Copy #1205 of 1500 SIGNED by the designer on the colophon page. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
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2017__1606601040Calla Editons 2017. Hardcover. New. 552 pages. 12.00x9.25x2.00 inches. Calla Editons hardcover
2005Q-014042234XPenguin Classics 2005-08-30. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
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SKU0567965Broadview Press 2016-03-01. paperback. Good. 5x0x8. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Broadview Press paperback
2008Q-1551114844Broadview Press 2008-04-25. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Broadview Press paperback
1994Q-0679601252Modern Library 1994-11-15. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Modern Library hardcover
193444649AB1934. New York Garden City Publishing 1934. 24 cm. XVI 627 pages. Illustrations including frontispiece and portraits in colour. Original hardcover. Good condition with minor signs of external wear. Frontcover slightly stained. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen - Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown. The Canterbury Tales Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. In 1386 Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and in 1389 Clerk of the King's work.It was during these years that Chaucer began working on his most famous text The Canterbury Tales. The tales mostly written in verse although some are in prose are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return. After a long list of works written earlier in his career including Troilus and Criseyde House of Fame and Parliament of Fowls The Canterbury Tales is near-unanimously seen as Chaucer's magnum opus. He uses the tales and descriptions of its characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time and particularly of the Church. Chaucer's use of such a wide range of classes and types of people was without precedent in English. Although the characters are fictional they still offer a variety of insights into customs and practices of the time. Often such insight leads to a variety of discussions and disagreements among people in the 14th century. For example although various social classes are represented in these stories and all of the pilgrims are on a spiritual quest it is apparent that they are more concerned with worldly things than spiritual. Structurally the collection resembles Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron which Chaucer may have read during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. It has been suggested that the greatest contribution of The Canterbury Tales to English literature was the popularisation of the English vernacular in mainstream literature as opposed to French Italian or Latin. English had however been used as a literary language centuries before Chaucer's time and several of Chaucer's contemporariesJohn Gower William Langland the Pearl Poet and Julian of Norwichalso wrote major literary works in English. It is unclear to what extent Chaucer was seminal in this evolution of literary preference. While Chaucer clearly states the addressees of many of his poems the intended audience of The Canterbury Tales is more difficult to determine. Chaucer was a courtier leading some to believe that he was mainly a court poet who wrote exclusively for nobility. The Canterbury Tales is generally thought to have been incomplete at the end of Chaucer's life. In the General Prologue some 30 pilgrims are introduced. According to the Prologue Chaucer's intention was to write four stories from the perspective of each pilgrim two each on the way to and from their ultimate destination St. Thomas Becket's shrine making for a total of about 120 stories. Although perhaps incomplete The Canterbury Tales is revered as one of the most important works in English literature. It is also open to a wide range of interpretations. Wikipedia hardcover
196543201AB1965. London Centaur Press Ltd. 1965. Octavo. 328 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. hardcover
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3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and numerous plates; blue cloth, gilt backs, blue tops, navy endpapers, a near fine set in publisher's board slip-case blocked and lettered in gilt.
6103672196pp. 516 . Hardback. New. hardcover
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0331618451.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1937187105New York: P. F. Collier & Son 1937. Vintage Copy. Hardcover. All volumes Very Good in boards. Corners lightly bumped. Vol. I spine crown chipped. ; The Harvard Classics Five-Foot Shelf of Books. P. F. Collier & Son hardcover
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1977Q-0140044523Penguin Books 1977-09-29. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Books paperback
1396828265.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
B9780582040113Paperback / softback. New. This text presents all four of Chaucer's dream poems together with a critical guide to dream poetry and introductions to the individual poems. It also includes a guide to the poetic themes present in Chaucer's other works such as the "Canterbury Tales." paperback
