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The Canterbury Tales (Bantam Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucers The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literatures most enduring (and endearing)... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market 
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Chaucer: Sources and Background by Robert P Miller Review "Excellent collection. Just what I was looking for!"--Mel Seesholtz, Penn State Abington College "A valuable source of information to support any undergradute course in Chaucer."--Jesse M. Gellrich, Louisiana State University... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wife of Bath (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide... (read more) List Price $13.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, The Canterbury Tales depicts a storytelling competition between pilgrims drawn from all ranks of society. The tales are as various as the pilgrims themselves, encompassing comedy... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Parliament of Birds by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments In this collection of poems, among his very best, Chaucer showcases his lyrical skills to perfection. Verging from tragic to comic, the overriding theme of the poetry is love, in its many guises. Chaucer tells of his passion for reading, which allows him... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales (Norton Critical Edition) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments Each is presented in the original language, with normalized spelling and substantial annotations for modern readers. Among the new added to the Second Edition are the much-requested "Merchant's Tale" and the "Tale of Sir Thopas." "Sources and Backgrounds"... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chaucer: 1340-1400; The Life and Times of the First English Poet by Richard West Publisher Comments Buoyantly blending biography with history and literary criticism, this engaging new life of Geoffrey Chaucer follows the career of a man whose courtly offices situated him at the center of cultural and political activity in medieval London and whose... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brief Lives: Geoffrey Chaucer (Brief Lives) by Gail Ashton Publisher Comments One of England's best-loved authors, Geoffrey Chaucer was a poet, bureaucrat, and diplomat. His richly imaginative and witty works, written in vernacular English rather than courtly French or Latin, established his mother tongue as a literary language in... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath by Steven Croft Publisher Comments Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R Howard Publisher Comments In this award-winning biography, the editor of the most popular edition of The Canterbury Tales re-creates the public, private, and poetic life and times of this extraordinary man. 16-page photo insert.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Canterbury Tales (Oneworld Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments Unfinished at the time of Chaucers death, this inimitable collection of fables, romances, and sermons has ingrained itself in the English imagination. As a motley crowd of pilgrims—from nun to knight, miller to monk, clerk to cook—journey from... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales: The First Fragment by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments A selection of the best-loved and most frequently studied of The Canterbury Tales This collection is the perfect introduction to one of the cornerstones of English literature. The General Prologue provides picturesque character sketches of the colorful... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life—... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments In the tradition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Marie Borroff's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher's The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Geoffrey Chaucer: The Nun's Priest's Tale by Victor Lee Publisher Comments Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments Text in Chaucerian English.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales (Modern Library) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccios Decameron and the other in works ranging from John... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Cambridge Chaucer Companion by Piero Boitani Publisher Comments Essays by international Chaucer experts provide a challenging introduction to the poet. They establish a context for Chaucer, discuss the significance of his position within it, and apply detailed and innovative analysis to his poetry.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd Publisher Comments A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer’s classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Canterbury Tales (Modern Library Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucers unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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