| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 436 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original. |
| Contents |
The knight's tale -- The miller's prologue and tale -- The reeve's prologue and tale -- The cook's prologue and tale -- The man of law's prologue, tale and epilogue -- The wife of Bath's prologue and tale -- The friar's prologue and tale -- The summoner's prologue and tale -- The clerk's prologue and tale -- The merchant's prologue, tale, and epilogue -- The squire's prologue and tale -- The franklin's prologue and tale -- The physician's tale -- The pardoner's prologue and tale -- The shipman's tale -- The prioress's prologue and tale -- Prologue and tale of Sir Thopas -- The monk's prologue and tale -- The nun's priest's prologue, tale and epilogue -- The second nun's prologue and tale -- The canon's yeoman's prologue and tale -- The manciple's prologue and tale -- The parson's prologue. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Adaptations.
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Fiction.
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Canterbury (England) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Canterbury tales.
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Bantock, Nick.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- Canterbury tales. 1st American ed. New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2009 9780670021222 (DLC) 2009026829 (OCoLC)318411549 |
| ISBN |
9781101155233 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) |
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110115523X (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) |
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9781101155639 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) |
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1101155639 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) |
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