A taste of Chaucer : selections from the Canterbury tales
Title:
A taste of Chaucer : selections from the Canterbury tales
JLCTITLE245:
Chosen and edited by Anne Malcolmson ; illustrated by Enrico Arno.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Canterbury tales. Selections
Edition:
[1st ed.].
Publication Information:
New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1964]
Physical Description:
184 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Abstract:
Verses from the Canterbury Tales in the original and translated form provides an introduction to Chaucer and Middle English literature.
Contents:
Fortunes of the great (Monk's tale) -- Chanticleer and the fox (Nun's priest's tale) -- Patient Griselda (Tale of the clerk of Oxenford) -- Phoebus and the crow (Manciple's tale) -- Rocks of Brittany (Franklin's tale) -- Ballad of Sir Thopas (Chaucer's tale) -- Story of Constance (Tale of the man of law) -- Wily alchemist (Canon's yeoman's tale) -- Three men in search of death (Pardoner's tale).