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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew names resonate through the corridors of English literary history with the enduring power of Geoffrey...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures loom as large in the English literary tradition as Geoffrey Chaucer, the 14th-century poet whose vivid imagination and masterful verse transformed the...

Author: ChaucerBinding: PaperbackPublished: CHESHIRE, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageChaucer: The Prologue And Three Tales presents a foundational work of English literature,...

One of The Times' Best Literary Non-Fiction Books of 2019 One of the Sunday Times' Best Literary Books of 2019 Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biography and Autobiography, Association...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew anthologies have shaped the English-speaking world's relationship with poetry as profoundly as The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900 — a landmark collection that chronicles...

Both an enhanced digital edition and a handsome print volume, The Norton Chaucer provides the complete poetry and prose, meticulously glossed and annotated specifically for undergraduate readers, with apparatus reflecting...

Author: Nevil CoghillBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1949Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cloth cover has wear from general use, pages have foxing and previous owner and...

Penguin Classics Relaunch In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling...

Author: Marion Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman...

An exploration of the influence of Italy and Italians on Chaucer's life and writing. Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration...

One of the great masterworks of English literature, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable...

Completely new edition of the most popular and widely-studied work of the English middle ages At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew collections have shaped the English-speaking world's understanding of its own poetic heritage quite like English Poetry: In Three Volumes — Volume I: From Chaucer to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew works in the English literary canon have endured as triumphantly as Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA cornerstone of medieval English literature, The General Prologue serves as the masterful opening frame to Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of medieval literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales presents one of the most vivid and enduring...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most celebrated works in the English literary canon, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales presents a vivid...

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David Wright's new translation of The Canterbury Tales into modern verse--the first to appear in over thirty years--makes one of the greatest works of English literature accessible to all readers...

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"In Appreciating Poetry poems are grouped according to theme or in order to illustrate an aspect of the techniques of poetry. The selection comprises poems commonly studied by Year 9-10...

This Liberty Faber Poetry Journal contains a selection of new and classic poems and over a hundred lined pages for the reader to fill as they wish. To My Dear...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few anthologies have achieved the canonical status of The New Oxford...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Some yellowing. Markings: DJ stuck on fep. Binding condition: Pages intact, binding good. A landmark in literary reference, The Concise...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA rich and entertaining anthology, The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes presents a carefully curated collection of stories drawn from...

Britain possesses a literary heritage which is almost unrivalled in the Western world. In this illustrated volume the richness, diversity and continuity of that tradition from Anglo-Saxon times to the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. From the fog-laden streets of Victorian London to the windswept moors of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Western literature cast as long a shadow as Giovanni Boccaccio, the fourteenth-century Florentine master whose wit, sensuality, and storytelling genius forever...

The star of this box is hiding in plain sight: all seven volumes of Boris Ford's landmark Pelican Guide to English Literature, the series that shaped how English literature was...

Called "the flour of Cities all," London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of...

New essays demonstrate Gower's mastery of the three languages of medieval England, and provide a thorough exploration of the voices he used and the discourses in which he participated. John...

In Medieval Autographies , A. C. Spearing develops a new engagement of narrative theory with medieval English first-person writing, focusing on the roles and functions of the "I" as a...

A richly enthralling and evocative account of King Arthur Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy...

Contains new introduction to second edition by volume editor. Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in...

Shaped by the increasing commercialization of economic relations, the social agitation of the agricultural and artisan classes, and the growing formalization of status consciousness, the cultural landscape of late medieval...

Author: Patience Agbabi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 'Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral, /Poet pilgrims competing for free picks, /Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remix /From below-the-belt...

The ruthless reign of Henry IV and the clerical tyranny of Archbishop Arundel keep Brother Chandler and his friends under constant threat in this gripping medieval mystery featuring friar-sleuth Rodric...

"The Short Oxford History of English Literature" provides, in a single volume, a comprehensive beginner's guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present...