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The CanterburyTales
de Peter Ackroyd
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670021229
- ISBN 13
- 9780670021222
- Librería
-
Dowagiac, Michigan, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 436 p. Contains: Line drawings, black & white. Audience: General/trade.
signed by previous owner
signed by previous owner
Sinopsis
A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer’s classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ranging from comedy to tragedy, pious sermon to ribald farce, heroic adventure to passionate romance, the tales serve not only as a summation of the sensibility of the Middle Ages but as a representation of the drama of the human condition. Ackroyd’s contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters—as well as explicitly rendering the naughty good humor of the writer whose comedy influenced Fielding and Dickens—yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer’s verse. This retelling is sure to delight modern readers and bring a new appreciation to those already familiar with the classic tales. @AprilFools Oh and the Wyfe of Bathe. Talk about a woman who likes to be perced to the roote. From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less
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Detalles
- Librería
- Olympia Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- Biblio89890076540345
- Título
- The CanterburyTales
- Autor
- Peter Ackroyd
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- US ed.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0670021229
- ISBN 13
- 9780670021222
- Editorial
- Viking Adult
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2009-10
- Palabras clave
- British Isles; Canterbury; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages; Classics; England; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Fiction; General; History; Medieval (500-1453); Poetry
- Catálogos del vendedor
- fiction;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Olympia Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2016
Dowagiac, Michigan
Sobre Olympia Books
Small, privately owned used book store located downtown in a small midwest town in southwest Michigan.
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