Book Description
This work tells the story of 30 pilgrims who meet by chance at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, London, and journey together to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury cathedral. To pass the time along the way, they tell stories to one another, shot through with cunning wit and dry humour.
About this book: Geoffey Chaucer (c.1340-1400) was one of the finest storytellers in the English language, as well as being a great poet and an accomplished prose writer. The Canterbury Tales, although incomplete at the time of Chaucer's death, is generally regarded as his greatest work. The Canterbury Tales tells the story of 30 pilgrims who meet by chance at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, London and journey together to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury cathedral. To pass the time along the way, they tell stories to one another. The Tales themselves range from the exemplary saints' lives told by the nuns, to the bawdy, comic tales of the miller and the reeve, always shot through with Chaucer's cunning wit and dry humour. Chaucer leaves his readers with the impression that the whole of medieval society has passed before their eyes. This new transcription and edition is taken from British Library MS Harley 7334, a beautifully decorated, volume produced within ten years of Chaucer's death. The aim of the present edition, with its 'on-page' notes and glosses, is to enable readers with little or no previous experience of medieval English to read and enjoy this landmark in English Literature.
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6
Look for the young and adventurous, the rational and conscientious, whose eager mind hunger for the devouring of all but the true others; Search for the experienced seniority, the bitter sweet and cynical, whose strong fingers cut through and caressed ...
評分As the title indicates, l cannot help associating this book with another distinguished tales, Decameron written by Giovanni Boccacci, which tremendously aroused my interest in making a further comparison between the two masterpieces. Despite the appa...
評分火车开始轰鸣,Z30次列车上一片欢声笑语。 这轻松的氛围始于列车长的一句提议:“既然我们都是要乘火车去北京看天安门的,一路上大家尽可以畅所欲言。每个人说一个故事,精彩的话,我就免费送一瓶来自西藏冰川的矿物质纯净水,原价7块5哦!” 然后大家就“争奇斗艳”地讲了起...
評分作者简介:(英)杰弗里·乔叟(Geoffrey Chaucer),1343年-1400年。出生于伦敦一个富裕的商人家庭,受过大学教育,熟悉法语和意大利语。1357年开始出入宫廷,后常出访欧洲,在意大利接触到了但丁、薄伽丘等人的作品.这影响了他后来的文学创作。乔叟于1400年在伦敦去世,葬在威斯...
評分As the title indicates, l cannot help associating this book with another distinguished tales, Decameron written by Giovanni Boccacci, which tremendously aroused my interest in making a further comparison between the two masterpieces. Despite the appa...
High school senior year compulsory reading.
评分一點也不喜歡。
评分Most hated book in our Senior World Lit. class...Not so bad after all those years.
评分Middle Age
评分寫得還是不錯的,但中古英語讀得蛋疼啊....五個多小時看瞭兩個tales和intro,眼睛都瞎瞭
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