| Description |
xii pages, 1 leaf, 607 pages : 32 color plate ; 26 cm |
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At head of title: The Modern reader's Chaucer. |
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Prose translation. |
| Contents |
Canterbury tales: Prologue -- Knight's tale -- Miller's tale -- Reeve's tale -- Cook's tale -- Man of Law's tale -- Shipman's tale -- Prioress's tale -- Tale of Sir Thomas -- Tale of Melibeus -- Monk's tale -- Nun's priest's tale -- Physician's tale -- Pardoner's tale -- Wife of bath's tale -- Friar's tale -- Sumner's tale -- Clerk's tale -- Merchant's tale -- Squire's tale -- Franklin's tale -- Second nun's tale -- Canon's yeoman's tale -- Manciple's tale -- Parson's tale -- Minor poems: A. B. C. -- Complaint unto pity -- Book of the duchess -- Complaint of Mars -- Parliament of birds -- Complaint to his lady -- Anelida and Arcite -- Chaucer's words unto Adam -- Former age -- Fortune -- Merciless beauty -- Rosamond: Ballade -- Truth -- Gentilesse -- Lack of steadfastness -- L'Envoy de Chaucer a Scogan -- L'Envoy de Chaucer a Buckton -- Complaint of Venus -- Complaint of Chaucer to his empty purse -- Proverbs of Chaucer -- Against women inconstant -- Amorous complaint -- Womanly nobility -- Troilus and Criseyde -- House of fame -- Legend of good women -- Chaucer's life and works -- Glossary and notes. |
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The Canterbury tales -- The minor poems -- Troilus and Criseyde -- The house of fame -- The legend of good women. |
| Added Author |
Tatlock, John S. P. (John Strong Perry), 1876-1948.
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MacKaye, Percy, 1875-1956.
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Goble, Warwick, illustrator.
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