Description |
2 volumes (287; 304 pages) : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Volume I : Introduction: Chaucer's life -- Chaucer's works -- The prologue -- The knight's tale -- Words between the host and the miller -- The miller's tale -- The reeve's prologue -- The reeve's tale -- The cook's prologue -- The cook's tale -- Introduction to the man of law's tale -- The man of law's prologue -- The man of law's tale -- The shipman's tale -- Words of the host to the shipman and the prioress -- The prioress's prologue -- Words of the host to Chaucer -- Chaucer's tale of Sir Topaz -- The host stops Chaucer's tale of Sir Topaz -- Chaucer's tale of Melibee (in synopsis) -- Words of the host to the monk -- The monk's tale (Lucifer, Adam, Samson, Hercules, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Zenobia, King Peter of Spain, King Peter of Cyuprus, Bernabo Visconti of Lombardy, Count Ugolino of Pisa, Nero, Holofernes, King Antiochus the illustrious, Alexander, Julius Caesar, Croesus) -- Words of the knight and the host -- The nun's priests' tale -- Words of the host to the nun's priest |
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Volume II : The physician's tale -- Words of the host to the physician and the pardoner -- The pardoner's prologue -- The pardoner's tale -- The wife of Bath's prologue -- Words between the summoner and the friar -- The wife of Bath's tale -- The friar's prologue -- The friar's tale -- The summoner's prologue -- The summoner's tale -- The clerk's prologue -- The clerk's tale -- Chaucer's envoy to the clerk's tale -- The merchant's prologue -- The merchant's tale -- Epilogue to the merchant's tale -- The squire's prologue -- The squire's tale -- Words of the franklin to the squire and host to the franklin -- The franklin's prologue -- The franklin's tale -- The second nun's prologue -- The second nun's tale -- The canon's yeoman's prologue -- The canon's yeoman's tale -- The manciple's prologue -- The manciple's tale -- The parson's prologue -- The parson's tale (in synopsis) -- The maker of this book here takes his leave |
Summary |
A collection of stories written in Middle English at the end of the 14th century, during the time of the Hundred Years' War, the tales are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral |
Subject |
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- England -- Canterbury -- Poetry.
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Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Author |
Coghill, Nevill, 1899-1980.
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Whyte, Edna.
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