The Canterbury Tales

The First Fragment

Geoffrey Chaucer author Michael Alexander editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:7th Mar '96

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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