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Author Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Title The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer ; translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill.

Publication Info. Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; New York : Penguin Books, 1977.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Book Nook Paperbacks 2nd Floor  BN Cha c.2  ---  Available
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  821.1 C393c 1977    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 526 pages ; 18 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Penguin classics
Penguin classics.
Contents The knight's tale -- The miller's tale -- The man of law's tale -- The clerk's tale -- The second nun's tale -- The friar's tale -- The nun's priest's tale -- The reeve's tale -- The franklin's tale -- The wife of Bath's tale -- The monk's tale -- The pardoner's tale -- The prioress's tale -- Chaucer's tale of Melibee.
Summary A collection of twenty-four stories, all but two of which are in verse, related by members of a company of thirty-one pilgrims who are on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury in medievel times.
Subject Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- England -- Canterbury -- Poetry.
England -- Fiction.
Middle Ages -- Fiction.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages. (OCoLC)fst00859365
England -- Canterbury. (OCoLC)fst01207174
Genre/Form Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Added Author Coghill, Nevill, 1899-1980.
ISBN 0140440224 (pbk.)
9780140440225 (pbk.)

 
    
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