Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780671727697
• eBook ISBN:
  9781451685565
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. 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 literary 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgments
• Preface by Mark Van Doren
• General Introduction
• Introduction by the Translator
• General Prologue
• The Knight
• The Miller
• The Reeve
• The Cook
• The Man of Law
• The Shipman
• The Prioress
• Chaucer
• The Monk
• The Nun’s Priest
• The Wife of Bath
• The Friar
• The Summoner
• The Cleric
• The Merchant
• The Squire
• The Franklin
• The Physician
• The Pardoner
• The Second Nun
• The Canon’s Yeoman
• The Manciple
• The Parson
• Chaucer’s Retraction
• From the Canterbury Tales in Middle English
• Critical Excerpts
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• About Geoffrey Chaucer
• Copyright