Title:
- Canterbury Tales, The
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Reviews:
| Review | Author |
|---|---|
| Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales, The - 8 | StefanY |
Editions:
| # | Date | Publisher | Binding | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1400-00-00 | Penguin |  |
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- Blurb:
- David Wright (translator) There is nothing quite like Chaucer"s Canterbury Tales in conception and execution. It is not just the range and variety of the poetry and of the tales themselves, or their themes and subject matter, but the realism of the portraits of the people who tell the stories, and the interplay between the tales and the characters of the tellers, that is completely original. In conceiving the idea of a pilgrimage to Cantebury in which the travelers amuse themselves by competing to tell the best story they know, Chaucer hit on a device by which he was able to hold up a mirror, not only to the England of his times, but to the world we live in. "The characters of Chaucer"s pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations..." --William Blake.