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The Canterbury Tales

By Geoffrey Chaucer
Series: The Norton Library
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer offers a vibrant collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims travelling to Canterbury. This edition, translated by Sheila Fisher, preserves Chaucer's original rhyme and meter while presenting the tales in a lively and accessible style, bringing to life the unforgettable characters and their engaging narratives.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers interested in classic literature, poetry, and medieval culture, as well as those seeking a fresh and approachable translation of this timeless work.

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Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter, Sheila Fisher's vivid, lively, and readable translation makes the poetic artistry of The Canterbury Tales accessible to a contemporary ear and invites readers, even those who have read the work before in Middle English, to a new appreciation of its delightful stories and unforgettable, surprisingly modern characters.

Series: The Norton Library

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393427899

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 November 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Contributors:

  • Translated by Sheila Fisher

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 261g

Pages: 416

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Arts & Culture Geoffrey Chaucer Non-Fiction Poetry Series: The Norton Library

About the Author

Sheila Fisher is Professor of English at Trinity College (Hartford). She is the author of Chaucer’s Poetic Alchemy: A Study of Value and Its Transformation in The Canterbury Tales, and the editor (with Janet E. Halley) of Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writings: Essays in Feminist Contextual Criticism, as well as essays on the Gawain-poet, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe.

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