The Canterbury Tales

Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue : Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism

• Author(s): Geoffrey Chaucer,
• Publisher: W. W. Norton
• Pages: 695
• ISBN_10: 1324000562
  ISBN_13: 9781324000563
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Poetry / General , Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

Description:... This Norton Critical Edition includes:

- The medieval masterpiece's most popular tales, including--new to the Third Edition--The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale.
- Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface, and a guide to Chaucer's language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson.
- Sources and analogues arranged by tale.
- Twelve critical essays, seven of them new to the Third Edition.
- A Chronology, a Short Glossary, and a Selected Bibliography.

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