The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Title: The Canterbury Tales

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 720

Release Date: 2018-05-01

Details: "This book has been more helpful to the students-both the better ones and the lesser ones-than any other book I have ever used in any of my classes in my more than a quarter century of university teaching."
-RICHARD L. KIRKWOOD, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

o 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.
o Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface, and a guide to Chaucer's language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson.
o Sources and analogues arranged by tale.
o Twelve critical essays, seven of them new to the Third Edition.
o A Chronology, a Short Glossary, and a Selected Bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts, and criticism-helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

EAN: 9781324000563

Package Dimensions: Height: 9.3 Inches, Length: 5.6 Inches, Weight: 1.18167772432 Pounds, Width: 0.8 Inches