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The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited with an introduction and notes by Jill Mann.
- Title
- The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited with an introduction and notes by Jill Mann.
- Author
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Publication
- London ; New York : Penguin, 2005.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mann, Jill.
- Description
- lxxii, 1254 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Chaucer's work begins at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, England, where a group of pilgrims have assembled on their way to Canterbury. Harry Bailly, the innkeeper, suggests a contest: whoever tells the best tale will win a supper when they reach Canterbury.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Penguin classics.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry
- Kommentar.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [785]-794).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Abbreviations of the Canterbury tales -- The general prologue -- The knight's tale -- The miller's prologue and tale -- The reeve's prologue and tale -- The cook's prologue and tale -- The man of law's prologue, tale [and epilogue] -- The wife of Bath's prologue and tale -- The friar's prologue and tale -- The summoner's prologue and tale -- The clerk's prologue and tale -- The merchant's prologue, tale and epilogue -- The squire's prologue and tale -- The squire-franklin link, the franklin's prologue and tale -- The physician's tale -- The physician-pardoner link, the pardoner's prologue and tale -- The shipman's tale -- The shipman-prioress link, the prioress's prologue and tale -- The prioress-Sir Thopas link and Sir Thopas.
- ISBN
- 014042234X (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 57168093
- SCSB-11247703
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library