The Canterbury Tales (1966, 2v.)

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The Canterbury Tales (1966, 2v.)

Geoffrey Chaucer

Edition year 1966
Binding Leather
Translator Nevill Coghill
Volumes 2
Weight 1.25 Kg
Pages Vol. 1: 287; Vol. 2: 304
Dimensions 22.2 × 12.5 cm

Edition details

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. 2nd. edition, reset. (2v.). Translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill. 22 full page and 42 small woodcut illustrations. Decorated endpapers. Quarter-bound in dark brown leather with canvas boards. Grey-green slipcase. Vol.1 287pp. Vol.2 304pp. Each 22.2x12.5cm.

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Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is one of the foundational works of English literature. It follows a diverse group of pilgrims travelling from London to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury, who agree to entertain one another by telling stories along the journey. The tales range from courtly romance and moral fable to bawdy comedy and sharp satire, while the pilgrims themselves represent a remarkable cross-section of medieval society. Through figures such as the Knight, Miller, Wife of Bath and Pardoner, Chaucer explores love, religion, class, greed and human weakness with extraordinary humour and insight.

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