The Canterbury Tales, Volume II

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The Canterbury Tales, Volume II
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Literature

The Canterbury Tales, Volume II

Geoffrey Chaucer
Edition year 1957
Binding Leather
Illustrator Edna Whyte
Translator Nevill Coghill
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 304
Dimensions 22 × 12.9 cm

Edition details

The Canterbury Tales, Volume II by Geoffrey Chaucer. Translated by Nevill Coghill. Ten full-page and 22 smaller woodcuts by Edna Whyte. Quarter bound in dark brown leather, grey-brown canvas boards. Endleaves with a design in black by Whyte. White dust-jacket printed in dark green and black. 22x12.9cm. 304pp.

About the book

The second volume of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales continues the storytelling contest among the pilgrims travelling to Canterbury. Their tales range widely in style and subject, from sophisticated romances and moral narratives to comic, bawdy and satirical stories. Through the distinctive personalities of his storytellers, Chaucer presents an extraordinarily broad cross-section of medieval life. Clergy, merchants, craftsmen and members of the landed classes all contribute their own perspectives, allowing the work to examine religion, marriage, social status and human behaviour with wit and remarkable psychological insight.

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