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Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited by A.C. Cawley ; with an introduction by Derek Pearsall.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Everyman's library ; 74Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992.Description: xli, 612 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0679409890
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Contents:
The Canterbury tales -- Fragment 1 (Group A) -- General prologue -- The knight's tale -- The Miller's prologue and tale -- The Reeve's prologue and tale -- The Cook's prologue and tale -- Fragment II (Group B¹) -- The man of law's introduction, prologue, tale, and epilogue -- Fragment III (Group D) -- The wife of Bath's prologue and tale -- The friar's prologue and tale -- The summoner's prologue and tale -- Fragment IV (Group E) -- The clerk's prologue and tale -- The merchant's prologue, tale, and epilogue -- Fragment V (Group F) -- The squire's introduction and tale -- The Franklin's prologue and tale -- Fragment VI (Group C) -- The physicians tale -- The pardoner's introduction, prologue, and tale -- Fragment VII (Group B²) -- The shipman's tale -- The prioress's prologue and tale -- The prologue and tale of Sir Thopas -- The tale of Melibee -- The monk's prologue and tale -- The nun's priests' prologue, tale, and epilogue -- Fragment VIII (Group G) -- The second nun's prologue and tale -- The canon's Yeoman's prologue and tale -- Fragment IX (Group H) -- The manciple's prologue and tale -- Fragment X (Group I) -- The Parson's prologue and tale -- Chaucer's retraction.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 à 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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxvii).

The Canterbury tales -- Fragment 1 (Group A) -- General prologue -- The knight's tale -- The Miller's prologue and tale -- The Reeve's prologue and tale -- The Cook's prologue and tale -- Fragment II (Group B¹) -- The man of law's introduction, prologue, tale, and epilogue -- Fragment III (Group D) -- The wife of Bath's prologue and tale -- The friar's prologue and tale -- The summoner's prologue and tale -- Fragment IV (Group E) -- The clerk's prologue and tale -- The merchant's prologue, tale, and epilogue -- Fragment V (Group F) -- The squire's introduction and tale -- The Franklin's prologue and tale -- Fragment VI (Group C) -- The physicians tale -- The pardoner's introduction, prologue, and tale -- Fragment VII (Group B²) -- The shipman's tale -- The prioress's prologue and tale -- The prologue and tale of Sir Thopas -- The tale of Melibee -- The monk's prologue and tale -- The nun's priests' prologue, tale, and epilogue -- Fragment VIII (Group G) -- The second nun's prologue and tale -- The canon's Yeoman's prologue and tale -- Fragment IX (Group H) -- The manciple's prologue and tale -- Fragment X (Group I) -- The Parson's prologue and tale -- Chaucer's retraction.

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