The Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer. (2008). The Canterbury Tales. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Geoffrey Chaucer. 2008. The Canterbury Tales. Blackstone Publishing.

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. Blackstone Publishing, 2008.

Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2008.

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     Martin Jarvis¹ career ranges from award-winning London theatre productions of Ayckbourn, Pinter and Wilde to Murder, She Wrote and James Cameron¹s Titanic in the U.S. He has twice received the British Talkies Award.

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Thus we hear, translated into modern English, twenty-some tales, told in the voices of knight and merchant, wife and miller, squire and nun, and many more. Some are bawdy, some spiritual, some romantic, some mysterious, some chivalrous. Between the stories, the travelers converse, joke, and argue, revealing much of their individual outlooks on life as well as what life was like in late fourteenth-century England.

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