The Canterbury Tales Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue : Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism

By Geoffrey Chaucer

Format:Softcover

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. 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.

Literary & Contemporary Fiction
695 pagesSoftcover
First published 2018

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