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  • Canterbury Tales and Related Readings
    by Geoffery Chaucer
    ISBN 0395893283 (0-395-89328-3)
    Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School

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  • The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Joe Glaser
    ISBN 0872207544 (0-87220-754-4)
    Softcover, Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated

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    This daring new translation of 21 of the tales, most of them rendered in iambic tetrameter, conveys the content, tone, and narrative style of the original in a line as expressive as it is economical. An Introduction treats Chaucer's works, influences, life, learning, and the world of 14th-century London. Includes a glossary. [via]

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  • The Canterbury Tales: Nine Tales and the General Prologue
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, V. A. Kolve, Glending Olson
    ISBN 0393952452 (0-393-95245-2)
    Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

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    For this new critical edition of "The Canterbury Tales", the editors have selected the most popular and admired of Chaucer's tales, together with the complete General Prologue. Each tale is presented in Chaucer's original verse but with modern spelling and substantial glossing. As with all Norton Critical Editions, "The Canterbury Tales" also includes sections on sources and backgrounds, and criticism. The Tales included are as follows: "The Knight's Tale", "The Miller's Prologue and Tale", "The Reeve's Prologue and Tale", "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale", "The Clerk's Prologue and Tale", "The Franklin's Prologue and Tale", "The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale", "The Prioress's Prologue and Tale" and "The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale". [via]

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  • The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, A. C. Cawley
    ISBN 0460870270 (0-460-87027-0)
    Softcover, Everyman

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    On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.

    From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]

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  • Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
    ISBN 0766171779 (0-7661-7177-9)
    Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC

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    The illustrious work of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, are presented herein as a modern rendering into prose of the Prologue and ten tales. The barrier of obsolete speech is the occasion for this rendering of the Canterbury Tales in English, easily intelligible today. Mr. Mackaye presents a representative portion of Chaucer's unfinished masterpiece in such a form as shall best preserve for a modern reader the substance and style of the original. Handsomely illustrated. [via]

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  • Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
    by Winthrop Wetherbee
    ISBN 0521311594 (0-521-31159-4)
    Softcover, Cambridge University Press

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    On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.

    From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]

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  • Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
    by Steve Ellis
    ISBN 0582248817 (0-582-24881-7)
    Softcover, Longman Publishing Group

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    This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary community, that Medieval Studies are generally impervious to many of the questions that modern theory asks, and that it concerns itself only with traditional philological and historical issues. On the contrary, this book shows how Chaucer, specifically the Canterbury Tales, has been radically and excitingly 'opened up' by feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and anthropological theories to name but a few.

    The book provides an introduction to these new developments by anthologising some of the most important work in the field, including excerpts from book-length works, as well as articles from leading and innovative journals. The introduction to the volume examines in some detail the relation between the individual strengths of each of the above approaches and the ways in which a 'postmodernist' Chaucer is seen as reflecting them all.

    This convenient single volume collection of key critical analyses of Chaucer, which includes work from some journals and studies that are not always easily available, will be indispensable to students of Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature and Chaucer, as well as to general readers who seek to widen their understanding of the forces behind Chaucer's writing.

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  • The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny, Maurice Hussey, A. C. Spearing, J. E. Spearing
    ISBN 0521046297 (0-521-04629-7)
    Softcover, Cambridge University Press

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    A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an introduction, detailed notes and a glossary. Selected titles are also available as CD recordings. [via]

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  • Le Morte D'Arthur
    by Thomas Malory
    ISBN 1404317775 (1-4043-1777-5)
    Softcover, IndyPublish.com

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    "A complete, unabridged edition of one of the most famous chronicles of the Arthurian legends comes with new illustrations. Edited by a lifelong scholar of the legends, the book includes some widely accepted corrections."--Publishers Weekly

    The epic story of King Arthur never fails to stir the imaginations of readers everywhere, and this outstanding illustrated version showcases original artwork that creates a unique vision of Camelot. Some of these breathtaking watercolors and pen-and-inks have hung in museums, including the depiction of Tintagel Castle, the Sword in the Stone, Merlin and Nimue, and Guenevere rescued from the stake. With remarkable accuracy, Anna-Marie Ferguson captures every nuance of the historical period, from the knights' shining armor to the intricate architecture to the English forests. Yet she also revels in the fantasy, with mysterious and magical landscapes, misty and moonlit. These legends have always been a treat for the mind--and now they are a feast for the eyes, too.

    About the Artist
    Anna-Marie Ferguson studied graphic art at Southampton College in the UK, and her work has appeared in various galleries and books--particularly volumes of fairy tales. Anna-Marie served as the "Arthurian expert" on the recent NBC mini-series, Merlin.
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  • Piers Plowman: The Prologue and Passus I-VII of the B Text As Found in Bodleian Ms. Laud Misc. 581
    by William Langland
    ISBN 1840221038 (1-84022-103-8)
    Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited

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    Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the strangest and one of the greatest poems of the Middle Ages. As spiritual allegory and social satire, it is not comparable with any other poem. Its chain of dream visions relates not only to the practical problems of medieval life, but also to the whole gamut of Christian attitudes towards God. Langland is sometimes plain and forthright, sometimes clumsy and obscure, but these limitations are utterly outweighed by his gifts for both comedy and lyricism and by moments of real sublimity. The poem survives in at least three versions. Terence Tiller's verse translation of the B-text is based on his abridgement of the poem for radio in 1980. Himself a poet, Tiller vividly conveys the colloquial immediacy and spiritual intensity of Langland's alliterative verse. Priscilla Martin has added the translation of the 'autobiographical episode' from the C-text. [via]

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  • The Riverside Chaucer
    by Larry D. Benson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert Pratt, F. N. Robinson
    ISBN 0395290317 (0-395-29031-7)
    Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company

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    This peerless new edition of Chaucer's complete works is the fruit of many years' study, and replaces Robinson's famous edition, long regarded as the standard text. Freshly edited and annotated, the "Riverside Chaucer" is now the indispensable edition for students and readers of Chaucer. [via]

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  • Lumiansky, Robert: Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur
    Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur
    by Robert Lumiansky
    ISBN 0684176734 (0-684-17673-4)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • The Tales of Canterbury: Complete
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert A. Pratt
    ISBN 0395140528 (0-395-14052-8)
    Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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    Tales of Canterbury, The: Complete by Chaucer, Geoffrey; ed. by Robert A. Pratt. 8vo. [via]

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  • William Langland's Piers Plowman: The C Version A Verse Translation
    by William Langland, George Economou
    ISBN 0812215613 (0-8122-1561-3)
    Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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    William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372 and 1389, the poem survives in three distinct versions. It is known to modern readers largely through the middle of the three, the so-called B-text. Now, George Economou's verse translation of the poet's third version makes available for the first time in modern English the final revision of a work that many have regarded as the greatest Christian poem in our language.

    Langland's remarkable powers of invention and his passionate involvement with the spiritual, social, and political crises of his time lay claim to our attention, and demand serious comparison with Dante's Divine Comedy. Economou's translation preserves the intensity of the poet's verse and the narrative energy of his alliterative long line, the immediacy of the original's story of the quest for salvation, and the individuality of its language and wordplay.

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