The Canterbury Tales , by Geoffrey Chaucer , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics :
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. 0in 0in 0pt">Pilgrims on their way to worship at the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket in Canterbury stop at the Tabard Inn. Representing a cross-section of medieval English society, the group includes a knight and his squire, a prioress, a friar, a miller, and a wife. To amuse themselves on their journey, they agree that each will tell a tale. These storiesby turns bawdy, hilarious, scurrilous, romantic, heroic, and movingreveal a great deal about the tellers and the world they live in, which, despite the distance of six hundred years, seems remarkably like our own. Indeed, the structure of The Canterbury Tales and the sophisticated, intricate interplay between the stories, their narrators, and the general narrator (himself a complex comic character) give the book its strikingly modern flavor.often called the first book of poetry written in English, Chaucer ’s masterpiece is also the first anthology of English short fiction, one that will resonate with readers for as long as folly and courage, deceit and generosity, love and jealousy remain part of the human personality. 0in 0in 0pt"> Robert W. Hanning is Professor of English at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1961. He has published The Vision of History in Early Britain , The Individual in Twelfth-Century Romance , The Lais of Marie de France (co-translated with Joan Ferrante), and Castiglione: the Ideal and the Real in Renaissance Culture (co-edited with David Rosand), as well as many articles on Chaucer’s poetry and other medieval and Renaissance subjects. Peter Tuttle 's most recent poetry is Looking for a Sign in the West , published by Back Short in 2003.
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關於三本書:Canterbury Tales, Decameron,Of human bondage. ====================================== 《十日談》早在初中就當淫書讀過,藉一本《坎德博雷故事》讀讀看——卻是在“畢業之前窮盡藉書卡”的念頭下萌生。算一算之間,似有十年。 這兩本老氣橫鞦的故事集,一直...
評分 評分作者簡介:(英)傑弗裏·喬叟(Geoffrey Chaucer),1343年-1400年。齣生於倫敦一個富裕的商人傢庭,受過大學教育,熟悉法語和意大利語。1357年開始齣入宮廷,後常齣訪歐洲,在意大利接觸到瞭但丁、薄伽丘等人的作品.這影響瞭他後來的文學創作。喬叟於1400年在倫敦去世,葬在威斯...
評分如果不看原版,我想這本書的趣味確實會大打摺扣。不是說中文譯本譯得不好,而是,像體裁、用韻等等一些東西,注定會在翻譯的過程中喪失。《坎特伯雷故事集》反應的社會麵很廣,可以說是一幅風俗畫捲。全書諷刺和勸喻並行,能夠看齣喬叟本人對於當時一些社會問題的看法。但是可...
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