Canterbury Tales
Garden City: International Collectors Library. 1934. FauxLeatherbound. 5.75"x8.5". 627 pp. Blue faux leather boards. Gilt candlebra design on front w/gilt frame. Mirrored on spine. Navy silk ribbon. Scenic paste down in blue ink. Typography by Robert Josephy. Rendered into modern english by J.U. Nicholson. With illustrations by Rockwell Kent and an introdution by Gordon Hall Gerould. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, & unmarked. Age spots on silk ribbon. GIFT QUALITY. Collectible - Near Fine. Item #13216
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer's genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales.
If we trust the General Prologue, Chaucer intended that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back. He never finished his enormous project and even the completed tales were not finally revised. Scholars are uncertain about the order of the tales. As the printing press had yet to be invented when Chaucer wrote his works, The Canterbury Tales has been passed down in several handwritten manuscripts.
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