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  • The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, John H. Fisher, John C. Hodges
    ISBN 0030286123 (0-03-028612-3)
    Hardcover, Heinle

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    The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer is intended to make Chaucer;s texts accessible with a minimum of scholary interference. The critical, biographical, and linguistic essays are grouped at the end so as not to impede the approach to the text. By doing so, the student is able to enjoy the richness and humor of The Canterbury Tales as well as the beauty of Troylus and Criseyde. This collection will create a deeper appreciation for Chaucer and his genius. [via]

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  • Complete Works
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
    ISBN 0192541196 (0-19-254119-6)
    Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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    This book is a replica of the original from the collections of The New York Public Library; it was produced from digital images created by The New York Public Library and its partners as part of their preservation efforts. To enhance your reading pleasure, the aging and scanning artifacts have been removed using patented page cleaning technology. We hope you enjoy the result. [via]

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  • Cuentos De Canterbury
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Ivana Mollo
    ISBN 849764803X (84-9764-803-X)
    Softcover, Edimat Libros

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    For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.
     
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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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  • Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
    by Winthrop Wetherbee
    ISBN 0521323312 (0-521-32331-2)
    Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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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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  • Piers Plowman
    by William Langland, Priscilla Martin, Terence Tiller
    ISBN 1840221038 (1-84022-103-8)
    Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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    This is a new annotated translation of the B-text, Langland's own extensive revision of his original text. One of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of medieval society, its deeply imaginative religious vision, and its passionate concern to see justice and truth prevail in our world. [via]

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  • Piers the Ploughman
    by William Langland
    ISBN 0140440879 (0-14-044087-9)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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    Piers the Ploughman, a blending of prophecy and satirical comedy, is the great representative English poem of the late Middle Ages.

    The work of an obscure fourteenth-century cleric, Piers the Ploughman is concerned with the largest of all poetic themes, the meaning of man's life in relation to his ultimate destiny. This spiritual allegory is set against a colorful background of teeming medieval life between the 'Tower of Truth' and the 'Dungeon of Falsehood'. With an Introduction, Notes and a book-by-book Commentary on the allegory, J.F. Goodridge's modern translation of the poem captures the flavour of Langland's vivid pictures and vernacular expressions.

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  • The Riverside Chaucer
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. Benson
    ISBN 0395290317 (0-395-29031-7)
    Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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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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  • 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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  • Troilus And Cressida
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, George Philip Krapp
    ISBN 0486446581 (0-486-44658-1)
    Softcover, Dover Pubns

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    Remarkable for his beauty and bravery, the warrior Troilus is an engaging youth who lives, and eventually dies, for Cressida, a virtuous, tender-hearted woman driven to infidelity by circumstance. Regarded by many as Chaucer's most noble work of art, Troilus and Cressida is an outstanding choice for readers of mythology and medieval poetry.
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  • Troilus and Cressida in Modern English Verse
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, George P. Krapp
    ISBN 0394701429 (0-394-70142-9)
    Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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  • Chaucer, Geoffrey: Troilus and Criseyde
    Troilus and Criseyde
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, B. A. Windeatt
    ISBN 0140424210 (0-14-042421-0)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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    Set against the epic backdrop of the battle of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde is an evocative story of love and loss. When Troilus, the son of Priam, falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde, he is able to win her heart with the help of his cunning uncle Pandarus, and the lovers experience a brief period of bliss together. But the pair are soon forced apart by the inexorable tide of war and - despite their oath to remain faithful - Troilus is ultimately betrayed. Regarded by many as the greatest love poem of the Middle Ages, Troilus and Criseyde skilfully combines elements of comedy and tragedy to form an exquisite meditation on the fragility of romantic love, and the fallibility of humanity. [via]

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  • Langland, William: The Vision of Piers Plowman
    The Vision of Piers Plowman
    by William Langland
    ISBN 0460115715 (0-460-11571-5)
    Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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    One man's dream of a better society...PIERS PLOWMAN stands at the centre of medieval English literature along with Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES, which in many ways it complements. A weary wanderer falls asleep and dreams of a tower and a deep dungeon, and in between the whold of humanity pursuing its business and pleasure...but his dream becomes a profound vision of redemption, in which the corruptions and injustices that occur daily are laid open with passionate truthfulness in poetry that combines vigorous realism and probing argument with moments of epic sublimity and lyrical beauty. Edited by AVC Schmidt of Balliol College, Oxford, this is the B-Text. 'A marvel of comprehension' Derek Pearsall [via]

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  • Vision of William Concerning Piers
    by Langland
    ISBN 0198113668 (0-19-811366-8)
    Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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    The title Piers Plowman or, as I prefer to write it, Piers CP lowman, is one which has been frequently misconstrued 1misunderstood by many authors, and concerning which many books have blundered inextricably. It is most important the reader should have a clear idea of what it means, and as is rather a difficult point to explain accurately, I must ask him give me his best attention; and I cannot refrain from adding hope that, if he succeeds in mastering the explanation of it, will refrain from using the phrase in future in the old slovenly The difficulty is three-fold, as originating in a three-fold error. three mistakes commonly made are these. First, Piers man is used as though it were the name of an author tndiy, two poems which are quite distinct, and the respective of which are familiarly expressed as The Vision of Piers )man and Pierce the Ploughmar CsC rede have been frequently founded together; and thirdly, the name of The Vision of Plowman is commonly given to what is really the Liber de :ro Plowman, of which the Vision forms only about a third I must ask the reader to bear in mind that, in what I am going to say, I make no reference whatever to the Crede, do not make any assertion about it till I again expressly tntion it by its full title. Unless this be remembered, our ice of arriving at the truth is much lessened. Just as Christian is not the author of Bunyans Pilgrim s Probut only the subject of it, so Piers the Plowman is not the lor of the Vision, but the subject of it; he is the personage T bif mistake occurs, for instance, in Chaucer s England, vol. ii. p. 230, Matthew Browne; who should have known better.
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  • Langland, William: Will's Vision of Piers Plowman
    Will's Vision of Piers Plowman
    by William Langland, Judith H. Anderson, E. Talbot Donaldson, Elizabeth D. Kirk
    ISBN 0393027724 (0-393-02772-4)
    Hardcover, W.W. Norton

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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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  • Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, F. N. Robinson
    ISBN 0192811576 (0-19-281157-6)
    Hardcover, Oxford University Press

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    This complete critical edition of Chaucer's poetry and prose has, as the Cambridge Review prophesied when it first appeared, become the standard edition of Chaucer for all who are seriously interested in his writings. [via]

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