'Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.'
Key Features
Highly collectible, these must-have classics should feature in every family's home library.Striking and recognisable black and white cover designs, achieving stand-out on the bookshelv read moreRemarkable for his beauty and bravery, the warrior Troilus is an engaging youth who lives, and eventually dies, for Cressida, a virtuous, tender-hearted woman driven to infidelity by circumstance. Regarded by many as Chaucer's most noble work of art, < read more
A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an introduction, detailed notes and a glossary. Selected titles are also available as CD recordings
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Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. As well as the complete text of the Merchant's Prologue and Tale, the student will find illustrated information on Chaucer's world, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of th read more
A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an introduction, detailed notes and a glossary. Selected titles are also available as CD recordings
read more
<DIV>A group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral agree to pass the weary miles by taking turns at storytelling thus begins English literature's grea read more
About the Book: Troylus and Criseyde
The double sorwe of Troylus to tellen That was the King Priamus sone of Troye (In Lovynge how his aventures fellen Fro wo to wele, and after out of joye). Despite his earlier mockery of lovers, Troylus read more
About the Book: Three Tales about Marriage Selected Poems-1
Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynogh for me To speke of wo that is in marriage; For, lordynges, sith I twelve yeer was of age, Thonked be God tha read more
Synopsis
One spring day 30 pilgrims set off from an inn in Southwark for a shrine in Canterbury. The inn keeper offers a free dinner, on their return, to the person who can tell the best story. So begins an assortment of tales from such varie read more
Synopsis
The Canterbury Tales, compiled in the late fourteenth century, is an incisive portrait, infused with Chaucer's wry wit and vibrant, poetical languauge. He evokes a spectrum of colourful characters, from the bawdy Wife of Bath read more
About The Author:
Geoffrey Chaucer, one of England's greatest poets, was born in London about 1340, the son of a wine merchant and deputy to the king's butler and his wife Agnes. Not much is known of Chaucer's early life a read more
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