The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer - Brossura

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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ISBN 10: 0140424385 ISBN 13: 9780140424386

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2003

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'Nevill Coghill's easy, seductive translation ensures that this, the most popular work in English Literature - now 600 years old - will run through yet more centuries' Melvyn Bragg

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature. A storytelling competition within a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. This masterly and vivid modern English verse translation retains all the vigour and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English.

Translated by NEVILL COGHILL

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Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in about 1342. He was valued highly by Edward III, who paid part of his ransom when he was captured fighting in France in 1360. He rose in royal employment, becoming a Justice of the Peace and was buried in 1400 in Westminster Abbey.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0140424385
• ISBN 13: 9780140424386
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 528