The Canterbury Tales
The First Fragment
Geoffrey Chaucer author Michael Alexander editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:7th Mar '96
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The most complete of all remaining surviving fragments sections of The Canterbury Tales, the First Fragment contains some of Chaucer's most widely enjoyed work. In The General Prologue, Chaucer introduces his pilgrims through a set of speaking portraits, drawn with a clarity that makes no attempt to conceal their peculiarities. The four tales that follow - those of the Knight, Miller, Reeve and Cook - reveal a wide variety of human preoccupations: whether chivalrous, romantic or simply sexual. Brilliantly bawdy and subtly complex, each of these tales is alive with Chaucer's skills as a poet, storyteller and creator of comedy.
ISBN: 9780140434095
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm
Weight: 236g
320 pages