by Geoffrey Chaucer · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781977500441
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«The Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue and Tale» is an edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval tale published by CreateSpace.
Study edition focused on the Pardoner's intervention in The Canterbury Tales: original Middle English text with wide margins for notes and a facing-page modern English translation. The narrative, delivered by a preacher who condemns greed while indulging in it, shows how avarice leads to ruin.
Volume 69 of the Thrifty Classic Literature collection; translation by Simon D. Pratt. Paperback, 62 pages, in English.
Aimed at students of English literature and readers who want to approach Chaucer's Middle English with the help of the translation.
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of English literature', or alternatively, the 'father of English poetry'. He was the first writer to be buried in what has since become Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
