The Canterbury Tales
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the most celebrated works in the English literary canon, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales presents a vivid and gloriously human panorama of medieval English society through the voices of thirty pilgrims journeying from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Each traveller — knight and knave, prioress and pardoner, miller and merchant — contributes a tale that ranges from courtly romance and ribald comedy to sharp moral fable and soaring poetry, creating a tapestry of 14th-century life unrivalled in its breadth and vitality. Chaucer's genius lies not merely in the diversity of his stories, but in the masterly dramatic irony with which he frames each narrator, allowing character, hypocrisy, and humanity to emerge through the very act of storytelling. Written in Middle English verse of extraordinary musicality, The Canterbury Tales chronicles the tensions between spiritual aspiration and earthly appetite that defined the medieval world — and, as any attentive reader will discover, continues to resonate with uncomfortable clarity in the present day.
Author: Chaucer
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the most celebrated works in the English literary canon, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales presents a vivid and gloriously human panorama of medieval English society through the voices of thirty pilgrims journeying from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Each traveller — knight and knave, prioress and pardoner, miller and merchant — contributes a tale that ranges from courtly romance and ribald comedy to sharp moral fable and soaring poetry, creating a tapestry of 14th-century life unrivalled in its breadth and vitality. Chaucer's genius lies not merely in the diversity of his stories, but in the masterly dramatic irony with which he frames each narrator, allowing character, hypocrisy, and humanity to emerge through the very act of storytelling. Written in Middle English verse of extraordinary musicality, The Canterbury Tales chronicles the tensions between spiritual aspiration and earthly appetite that defined the medieval world — and, as any attentive reader will discover, continues to resonate with uncomfortable clarity in the present day.