The Canterbury Tales
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
ISBN: 9780141393216
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2013
Pages: 528
Dimensions: 205mm x 134mm x 44mm
Format: Hardback
Description:
One of the great masterworks of English literature, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.
ISBN: 9780141393216
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2013
Pages: 528
Dimensions: 205mm x 134mm x 44mm
Format: Hardback
Description:
One of the great masterworks of English literature, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.
