The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue : A Norton Critical Edition

Publisher: W. W. Norton
Publish date: 2018
Pages: 695
Binding: Paperback
Language: English

Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Reference, Literary Criticism, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Poetry

This Norton Critical Edition includes:



* The medieval masterpiece's most popular tales, including--new to the Third Edition--The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale.

* Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface, and a guide to Chaucer's language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson.

* Sources and analogues arranged by tale.

* Twelve critical essays, seven of them new to the Third Edition.

* A Chronology, a Short Glossary, and a Selected Bibliography.



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