| Description |
xvi, 626 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Illustrated lining-papers. |
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Head and tail pieces. |
| Contents |
Group A: -- The prologue -- The knight's tale -- The miller's prologue -- The miller's tale -- The reeve's prologue -- The reeve's tale -- The cook's prologue -- The cook's tale. |
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Group B: -- Introduction to the lawyer's prologue -- The lawyer's tale -- The sailor prologue -- The sailor's tale -- The prioress' prologue -- The prioress tale -- Prologue to Sir Thopas -- Sir Topas -- Prologue to Melibeus -- The tale of Melibeus -- The monk's prologue -- The monk's tale: Lucifer; Adam; Samson; Hercules; Nebuchadnezzar; Belshazzar; Zenobia; Pedro, King of Spain; Peter, King of Cyprus; Barnabo of Lombardy; Ugolino, Count of Pisa; Nero; Holofernes; Antiochus Epiphanes; Alexander; Julius Caesar; Croesus; -- The prologue to the nun's priest's tale -- The nun's priest's tale -- The epilogue to the nun's priest's tale. |
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Group C: -- The physician's tale -- The words of the host -- The prologue of the pardoner's tale -- The pardoner's tale. |
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Group D: -- The wife of Bath's prologue -- The words between the summoner and the friar -- The wife of Bath's tale -- The friar's prologue -- the friar's tale -- The summoner's prologue -- the summoner's tale. |
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Group E: -- The clerk's prologue -- The clerk's tale -- The merchant's prologue -- The merchant's tale -- The epilogue to the merchant's tale. |
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Group F: -- The squire's prologue -- The squire's tale -- The words of the Franklin -- The Franklin's prologue -- the Franklin's tale. |
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Group G: -- The second nun's prologue -- the second nun's tale -- the canon's yeoman's prologue -- The canon yeoman's tale. |
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Group H: -- The manciple's prologue -- The manciple's tale. |
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Group I: -- The parson's prologue -- The parson's tale; -- Wherein Chaucer takes leave of his book. |
| Summary |
The story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England). The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to pass the time on their journey to Canterbury. |
| Subject |
Children's stories, English.
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- England -- Canterbury -- Poetry.
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Middle Ages -- Juvenile poetry.
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Middle Ages -- Poetry.
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England -- Fiction.
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Short stories.
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Tales, Medieval.
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English poetry -- Middle Ages.
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| Added Author |
Nicolson, J. U. (John Urban), 1885- translator.
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צ'וסר, ג'פרי, נפ. 1400.
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Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971, illustrator.
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Gerould, Gordon Hall, 1877-1953, writer of introduction.
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