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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories told by pilgrims on the way to the shrine of Thomas ? Becket in Canterbury reveal a teeming, vital fourteenth-century English society on the verge of its Renaissance.

Discusses the events surrounding the murder of Thomas ? Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the living conditions in England during the reign of Henry II.

A company of thirty-one pilgrims tell their stories on the way to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury. Text is in Middle English and includes definitions, an introduction, and notes on pronunciation, grammar, and versification.

An illustrated retelling of seven of the Canterbury Tales including the "The Nun's Priest's Tale," "The Pardoner's Tale," "The Wife of Bath's Tale," "The Franklin's Tale," "The Knight's Tale," "The Miller's Tale," and "The Reeve's Tale.".

A group of pilgrims tell their stories on the way to Canterbury Cathedral.

A retelling of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous work in which a group of pilgrims in fourteenth-century England tell each other stories as they travel on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Canterbury.