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THE CANTERBURY TALES - GEOFFREY CHAUCER TASCHEN...

'Whoever best acquits himself  and tells The most amusing and instructive tale  Shall have a
dinner  paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem  The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387)
a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other
on the way to Canterbury by telling stories. The pilgrims come from all ranks of society  from
the crusading Knight and burly Miller to the worldly Monk and lusty Wife of Bath. Their tales
are as various as the tellers  including romance  bawdy comedy  beast fable  learned debate 
parable  and Eastern adventure. The resulting collection gives us a set of characters so vivid
that they have often been taken as portraits from real life  and a series of stories as
hilarious in their comedy as they are affecting in their tragedy. Even after 600 years  their
account of the human condition seems both fresh and true. This new edition of David Wright's
acclaimed translation includes a new crit

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