The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (1978 Leather, Easton Press)
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The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (1978 Leather, Easton Press)
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 lite...rary 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.If we trust the General Prologue, Chaucer intended that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back. He never finished his enormous project and even the completed tales were not finally revised. Scholars are uncertain about the order of the tales. As the printing press had yet to be invented when Chaucer wrote his works, The Canterbury Tales has been passed down in several handwritten manuscripts.Translated from the Middle English by Frank Ernest Hill, illustrated by Charles E. Skaggs.
This masterpiece is presented here in classic Easton Pressstyle, leather bound, gilt edged, finely illustrated and printed onacid-neutral paper with a ribbon marker. It doesn't get much better than this!
And see my other Easton Press titles here!
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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 lite...rary 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.If we trust the General Prologue, Chaucer intended that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back. He never finished his enormous project and even the completed tales were not finally revised. Scholars are uncertain about the order of the tales. As the printing press had yet to be invented when Chaucer wrote his works, The Canterbury Tales has been passed down in several handwritten manuscripts.Translated from the Middle English by Frank Ernest Hill, illustrated by Charles E. Skaggs.
This masterpiece is presented here in classic Easton Pressstyle, leather bound, gilt edged, finely illustrated and printed onacid-neutral paper with a ribbon marker. It doesn't get much better than this!
And see my other Easton Press titles here!
FREE SHIPPING TO DOMESTIC ADDRESSES!. International buyers may pay extra.
