The Canterbury Tales: Chaucer : Canterbury Tales

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Canterbury Tales: Chaucer : Canterbury Tales
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Geoffrey Chaucer
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:656
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 128
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780460870276
ClassificationsDewey:821.1
Audience
A / AS level
Undergraduate
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date 20 September 1990
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This new reprint of the existing Everyman CANTERBURY TALES retains the essentialingredients of A C Cawley's highly respected edition,but adds a new prefactory introduction by Professor Malcolm Andrews of The Queen's University Belfast;a new suggested reading list;and a new chronology of Chaucer's life and times.Whether read for study or purely pleasure,the CANTERBURY TALES remains as fresh and enjoyable today as when it was written.

Author Biography

Geoffrey Chaucer, who was born in 1343 and died in 1400, is widely considered to be the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author of a number of works, he is best known today for THE CANTERBURY TALES.