THE CANTERBURY TALES by Geoffrey Chaucer (The Complete, Original, Unabridged Authoritative Edition) GEOFFREY CHAUCER (Father of English Literature)

THE CANTERBURY TALES by Geoffrey Chaucer (The Complete, Original, Unabridged Authoritative Edition) GEOFFREY CHAUCER (Father of English Literature)

THE CANTERBURY TALES by Geoffrey Chaucer (The Complete, Original, Unabridged Authoritative Edition) GEOFFREY CHAUCER (Father of English Literature)

THE CANTERBURY TALES by Geoffrey Chaucer (The Complete, Original, Unabridged Authoritative Edition) GEOFFREY CHAUCER (Father of English Literature)

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Overview

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly written in verse although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.

After a long list of works written earlier in his career, including Troilus and Criseyde, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowls, the Canterbury Tales was Chaucer's magnum opus. He uses the tales and the descriptions of its characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940014391375
Publisher: Christian Miracle Foundation Press
Publication date: 05/23/2012
Series: The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer English Literature Middle English , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 193,215
File size: 444 KB

About the Author

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works, which include The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde, he is best known today for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.
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