The Canterbury Tales
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A masterwork of medieval literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales presents one of the most vivid and enduring portraits of 14th-century English society ever committed to the page. A motley company of pilgrims — knights and knaves, monks and merchants, wives and wanderers — gather at the Tabard Inn in Southwark and embark on a journey to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury, each agreeing to tell tales along the way to pass the time, with the best storyteller promised a free meal upon their return. What emerges from this deceptively simple framing device is a breathtaking tapestry of human experience: bawdy fabliaux sit alongside solemn moral allegories, courtly romances brush shoulders with sharp social satire, and the sacred collides head-on with the profane. Chaucer's genius lies in his unparalleled ability to ventriloquize an entire society through distinct narrative voices, each tale meticulously calibrated to its teller's character, class, and ambition. Written in Middle English verse of astonishing musicality and wit, The Canterbury Tales remains as immediate and revelatory today as it was six centuries ago — a text that holds a mirror up to human nature and dares the reader to look away.
Author: Chaucer
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A masterwork of medieval literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales presents one of the most vivid and enduring portraits of 14th-century English society ever committed to the page. A motley company of pilgrims — knights and knaves, monks and merchants, wives and wanderers — gather at the Tabard Inn in Southwark and embark on a journey to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury, each agreeing to tell tales along the way to pass the time, with the best storyteller promised a free meal upon their return. What emerges from this deceptively simple framing device is a breathtaking tapestry of human experience: bawdy fabliaux sit alongside solemn moral allegories, courtly romances brush shoulders with sharp social satire, and the sacred collides head-on with the profane. Chaucer's genius lies in his unparalleled ability to ventriloquize an entire society through distinct narrative voices, each tale meticulously calibrated to its teller's character, class, and ambition. Written in Middle English verse of astonishing musicality and wit, The Canterbury Tales remains as immediate and revelatory today as it was six centuries ago — a text that holds a mirror up to human nature and dares the reader to look away.