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Paperback. Condizione: New. Making a major part of England's literary heritage accessible to a new audience, Peter Ackroyd's The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling renders Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless tales in lucid, compelling modern English prose, with illustrations by Nick Bantock in Penguin Classics.On a pilgrimage to Canterbury, a group of travellers agree to a storytelling competition. As they make their way on the road, they drink, laugh, flirt, argue and try to outdo each other with their tales. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, these tales can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London. Incorporating every style of medieval narrative - bawdy anecdote, allegorical fable and courtly romance - the tales encompass a blend of universal human themes, retold here for our times by bestselling author Peter Ackroyd.The edition also includes an introduction by Ackroyd, detailing some of the historical background to Chaucer and the Tales, and why he has been inspired to translate them for a new generation of readers.Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, courtier and diplomat, best known as the author of The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is credited as being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language. The first poet to have been buried in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey, his other works include The House of Fame, Troilus and Criseyde and The Book of the Duchess.Peter Ackroyd (b. 1949) is an award-winning writer and historian. Formerly literary editor of The Spectator and chief book reviewer for the The Times, he is the author of novels such as Hawksmoor (1985) and The House of Doctor Dee (1993), as well as non-fiction including Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion (2002), London: The Biography (2000), and Thames: Sacred River (2007). 'Ackroyd's retelling is compulsive, bold and rare . as fresh as new paint'Observer'The only version to read'Time Out.

Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condizione: New. Stearn, Ted (illustratore). pp. 464 Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.

Condizione: Very Good.

First edition. Hardcover (full size octavo format). Fore-edge with a slight bit of soiling, o/w fine in like dustjacket. A prose rendering of Chaucer's tales, with a substantial introduction and notes on the text by Ackroyd, and b/w illustrations by Nick Bantock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Original publishers cream cloth, lettered black on spine. Iain Sinclair's copy with a letter from Penguin loosely inserted. ISBN: 1846140587 Pages: 464 Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. Nick Bantock (illustratore). First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

First edition. 8vo. [xxii], 436 pp. Illustrated by Nick Bantock. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine copy. (93650).