Publisher's Synopsis
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by the medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. The book is a frame narrative, meaning that it consists of a collection of tales told by a group of pilgrims who are traveling together to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury. Each pilgrim tells a story, and the tales cover a wide range of genres, including romance, fabliau, allegory, and morality tale. The characters who tell the tales are drawn from various social classes and professions, including a knight, a miller, a prioress, a merchant, a friar, and a wife of Bath. The book is notable for its vivid characterizations, its use of Middle English, and its exploration of themes such as love, marriage, morality, and social class. The Canterbury Tales is considered one of the greatest works of English literature and has had a profound influence on subsequent writers.1904. The illustrious work of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, are presented herein as a modern rendering into prose of the Prologue and ten tales. The barrier of obsolete speech is the occasion for this rendering of the Canterbury Tales in English, easily intelligible today. Mr. Mackaye presents a representative portion of Chaucer's unfinished masterpiece in such a form as shall best preserve for a modern reader the substance and style of the original. Handsomely illustrated.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
