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The Canterbury Tales
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Author
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Geoffrey Chaucer. Burton Raffel, trans. John Miles Foley, intro.
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Publisher
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Modern Library
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.5
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6.5
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1.6
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ISBN
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9780679643555
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Pages/Publication Date
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626/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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20564
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Description
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Beyond its importance as a medieval literary masterpiece, Geoffrey Chaucer's epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language—lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. The worthy knight, the drunken miller, the hypocritical pardoner, and the lusty wife of Bath are among the assorted pilgrims competing, as entertainment for the journey to Canterbury, to tell the best tale, each in his or her own way. And though the continual evolution of our language has rendered some of Chaucer's words difficult to understand for modern readers, Burton Raffel's superb translation in this fine edition illuminates the work's wit, insight, and humanity.
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