by Geoffrey Chaucer · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781976441035
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«The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale» is Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval tale in paperback (120 pages, in English).
The pilgrims of The Canterbury Tales entertain themselves by telling stories on their journey to Canterbury. This volume focuses on the Prologue and Tale of the Wife of Bath, a famous character created by Chaucer, and presents the original Middle English text alongside a modern English translation on facing pages, with wide margins for notes.
This book is volume 69 of the Thrifty Classic Literature series and includes the revised modern English translation by Simon D Pratt.
Intended for secondary school and university students approaching Chaucer's Middle English.
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.
