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Canterbury Tales
Häftad, 2003
152 kr
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'Nevill Coghill's easy, seductive translation ensures that this, the most popular work in English Literature - now 600 years old - will run through yet more centuries' Melvyn BraggIn The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature. A storytelling competition …
Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd
Av Geoffrey Chaucer, Peter Ackroyd
Häftad, 2010
179 kr
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Making a major part of England's literary heritage accessible to a new audience, Peter Ackroyd's The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling renders Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless tales in lucid, compelling modern English prose, with illustrations by Nick Bantock in Penguin Classics.On a pilgrimage to …
Canterbury Tales
Inbunden, 2013
239 kr
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the …
Troilus and Criseyde
Häftad, 2004
179 kr
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Set against the epic backdrop of the battle of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde is an evocative story of love and loss. When Troilus, the son of Priam, falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde, he is able to win her heart with the help of his cunning uncle Pandarus, and the lovers experience a brief …
Canterbury Tales
Häftad, 2012
72 kr
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During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (bornc.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator,overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend andfather, but is now mainly known as a poet and ‘the father of …
Canterbury Tales: Fully Annotated Edition
Annotated Edition: 3,000 notes and 30 pages extra material
Häftad, 2020
113 kr
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Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, twenty-nine pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on their long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to earn a free supper. The pilgrims correspond …
Canterbury Tales
Häftad, 2012
67 kr
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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.’Written at the end of the fourteenth century, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories told in Middle-English. Thirty pilgrims leave Southwark to …
Troilus and Criseyde in Modern Verse
Häftad, 2014
217 kr
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This fast-moving Modern English version of Chaucer's greatest tragic romance highlights the poem's rapid shifts in register and diction as well as its subtle and elusive characterizations, while preserving the enchanting rhyme-royal stanza of the Middle English original. Christine Chism's …
Canterbury Tales
Häftad, 1996
190 kr
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This reading of "The Canterbury Tales" is in contempoarary English prose to appeal to the student and general reader alike. It tells the story of a pilgrimage to Canterbury in which men and women drawn from all classes of society lighten their journey by telling tales.
Canterburysägner
E-bok, 2017
79 kr
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Ett trettiotal vitt skilda människor samlas på ett värdshus i Southwark i London och är på väg att företa en pilgrimsfärd till katedralen i Canterbury. De kommer alla från olika bakgrunder och stånd i samhället, men bestämmer sig för att gemensamt fördriva tiden på den långa resan. Alla pilgrimerna …
Canterburysägner
E-bok, 2019
49 kr
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Geoffrey Chaucer [ca 1343—1400] var en engelsk filosof och författare. Chaucer räknas som en av de mest inflytelserika poeterna från medeltiden. Hans mest berömda verk är Canterburysägner från runt år 1400, en samling om 24 berättelser skrivna på vers. Canterburysägner betraktas som ett av de …
Canterbury Tales
Penguin Classics
Ljudbok, 2019
235 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Lesley Manville (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and known for Phantom Thread and Mum ), Derek Jacobi (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and known for Gladiator and Gosford Park ), Michael …
Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde
Ljudbok, 2010
64 kr
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Chaucer''s ''Troilus and Criseyde'' by poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw. One of the great works of English literature, this powerful, compelling story explores love from its first tentative beginnings through to passionate sensuality and eventual tragic …
The Riverside Chaucer
Reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon
Av Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. Benson
Häftad, 2008
510 kr
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The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon.Since F. N. Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship. This has not …
Portable Chaucer
Revised Edition
Av Geoffrey Chaucer, Theodore Morrison
Häftad, 1977
346 kr
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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 accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, …
Canterbury Tales
Av Geoffrey Chaucer, Geraldine McCaughrean
Häftad, 1997
109 kr
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A lively, humorous retelling for children of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean.
Canterbury Tales
Av Geoffrey Chaucer, Jill Mann
Häftad, 2005
270 kr
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At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees …
Troilus and Criseyde
Av Geoffrey Chaucer, Barry Windeatt
Häftad, 2003
190 kr
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Chaucer's longest complete poem is the supreme evocation of doomed courtly love in medieval English literature. Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the poem relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover, only to be betrayed …
Canterbury Tales
A Selection
Av Geoffrey Chaucer, Colin Wilcockson
Häftad, 2008
210 kr
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This selection of the best-loved and most frequently studied of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales provides a fascinating introduction to one of the great cornerstones of English literature. The General Prologue gives vivid character sketches of the colourful band of pilgrims who gather at a London inn on …
Love Visions
Häftad, 1983
179 kr
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Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who …
Canterbury Tales
Av Geoffrey Chaucer, Geraldine McCaughrean
E-bok, 2015
91 kr
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A lively re-telling of the medieval classic.One fine spring day, thirty pilgrims set off from Harry Bailey's inn in Southwark for the shrine of Thomas A Becket in Canterbury. The innkeeper makes an offer that none of the travellers can refuse: a free dinner at his inn, on their return, to the …
Wife of Bath
E-bok, 2015
17 kr
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'Those husbands that I had,Three of them were good and two were bad.The three that I call "good" were rich and old...' One of the most bawdy, entertaining and popular stories from The Canterbury Tales.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics …
Troilus and Criseyde
E-bok, 2004
113 kr
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Set against the epic backdrop of the battle of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde is an evocative story of love and loss. When Troilus, the son of Priam, falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde, he is able to win her heart with the help of his cunning uncle Pandarus, and the lovers experience a brief …
Canterbury Tales
E-bok, 2005
165 kr
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At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees …
Love Visions
E-bok, 2006
136 kr
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Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who …
Canterbury Tales
The First Fragment
E-bok, 2005
113 kr
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The most complete of all remaining surviving fragments sections of The Canterbury Tales, the First Fragment contains some of Chaucer's most widely enjoyed work. In The General Prologue, Chaucer introduces his pilgrims through a set of speaking portraits, drawn with a clarity that makes no attempt …
