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Canterbury Tales Mass Market Paperback – June 1, 1990
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The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters—including Chaucer himself—are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer's genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales.
- Print length480 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication dateJune 1, 1990
- Dimensions4.19 x 1 x 6.75 inches
- ISBN-100671727699
- ISBN-13978-0671727697
- Lexile measureNP
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But it is for The Canterbury Tales that he is best remembered. This masterpiece of English literature moved Aldous Huxley to say, "If I dared to wish for genius, I would ask for the grace to write The Canterbury Tales."
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- Publisher : Simon & Schuster; Enriched Classic edition (June 1, 1990)
- Language : English
- Mass Market Paperback : 480 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0671727699
- ISBN-13 : 978-0671727697
- Lexile measure : NP
- Item Weight : 8 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.19 x 1 x 6.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #930,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #983 in British & Irish Poetry
- #21,800 in Classic Literature & Fiction
- #43,726 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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Ronald L. Ecker received his B.A. in English at the University of Florida, and served for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Peru. He earned a Master of Library Science degree at Florida State University, and did postgraduate work in biblical studies at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School. His other books include the DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE AND CREATIONISM and THE EVOLUTIONARY TALES: RHYME AND REASON ON CREATION/EVOLUTION. His modern-English translation (with Eugene J. Crook) of Geoffrey Chaucer's THE CANTERBURY TALES is a widely adopted text in college and university literature courses.
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1343 - 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered 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, philosopher, and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten-year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works, which include The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde. He is best known today for The Canterbury Tales.
Chaucer was a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.
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The Canterbury Tales follow a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, a cathedral town in England. Having all coincidentally stayed in the same inn, the group decides to go Canterbury together. The inn's owner, the Host, decides to make the journey more interesting by asking everyone in the party to tell a story: whoever tells the best story, in his opinion, will win a free dinner. The author, Geoffrey Chaucer, is a member of the party and serves as the narrator, and even tells a couple stories himself.
Thus follows a series of poems. The topics vary wildly, and include faith, romance, gender equality, and wealth. Western culture has changed a lot since the Tales were written--but in some ways, we haven't changed at all. There is also occasional vulgar and perverted humor (my favorite--and not something I was expecting from medieval poetry).
Just as the Tales vary wildly in topic, so too do they vary in quality. Some are quick, enjoyable, absorbing reads, while others are snooze fests that are a chore to get through. This is the main reason I have given the Tales four stars.
The Tales are incomplete. Some of the poems were left unfinished with no in-story explanation, while others are interrupted by other characters. The metanarrative is never resolved (ie, the Host never picks the winner). The Penguin Classics edition also cuts the two prose tales, The Tale of Melibee and the Parson's Tale, and replaces them with summaries.
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Its not quite 120 stories but still. I found myself quite amused with the vulgary language uses in the Miller's tale or fascinated by the fate of 2 cousins fighting each other in the name of love in the Knight's tale.
The only con I can think of is the distinctive vocabulary used by the translator in the introduction.