Canterbury Tales
, by Chaucer, GeoffreyNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780671727697 | 0671727699
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/1/1990
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer's genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page ofThe Canterbury Tales.