The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert W. Hanning, Peter Tuttle
Pilgrims on their way to worship at the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket in Canterbury stop at the Tabard Inn. Representing a cross-section of medieval English society, the group includes a knight and his squire, a prioress, a friar, a miller, and a wife. To amuse themselves on their journey, they agree that each will tell a tale. These stories--by turns bawdy, hilarious, scurrilous, romantic, heroic, and moving--reveal a great deal about the tellers and the world they live in, which, despite the distance of six hundred years, seems remarkably like our own. Indeed, the structure of The Canterbury Tales and the sophisticated, intricate interplay between the stories, their narrators, and the general narrator (himself a complex comic character) give the book its strikingly modern flavor.
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Rok:
2007
Wydanie:
1
Wydawnictwo:
Barnes & Noble
Język:
english
Strony:
866
ISBN 10:
1593080808
ISBN 13:
9781593080808
Plik:
MOBI , 1.05 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2007