The Clerkes Tale
Author: Chaucer
Publisher:
Published: 1888
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
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The Clerk's Tale
Author: Spencer Reece
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2004-04-04
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 0547346638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a recent double fiction issue, The New Yorker devoted the entire back page to a single poem, "The Clerk's Tale," by Spencer Reece. The poet who drew such unusual attention has a surprising background: for many years he has worked for Brooks Brothers, a fact that lends particular nuance to the title of his collection. The Clerk's Tale pays homage not only to Chaucer but to the clerks' brotherhood of service in the mall, where "the light is bright and artificial, / yet not dissimilar to that found in a Gothic cathedral." The fifty poems in The Clerk's Tale are exquisitely restrained, shot through with a longing for permanence, from the quasi-monastic life of two salesmen at Brooks Brothers to the poignant lingering light of a Miami dusk to the weight of geography on an empty Minnesota farm. Gluck describes them as having "an effect I have never quite seen before, half cocktail party, half passion play . . . We do not expect virtuosity as the outward form of soul-making, nor do we associate generosity and humanity with such sophistication of means, such polished intelligence . . . Much life has gone into the making of this art, much patient craft."
The Clerk's Tale
Author: Thomas Augst
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003-11-15
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0226032205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth-century America, where many of them found work as clerks. The Clerk's Tale recounts their remarkable story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at the dawn of the modern era. How did these young men understand the volatile world of American capitalism and make sense of their place within it? Thomas Augst follows clerks as they made their way through the boarding houses, parlors, and offices of the big city. Tracing the course of their everyday lives, Augst shows how these young men used acts of reading and writing to navigate the anonymous world of market culture and claim identities for themselves within it. Clerks, he reveals, calculated their prospects in diaries, composed detailed letters to friends and family, attended lectures by key thinkers of the day, joined libraries where they consumed fiction, all while wrestling with the boredom of their work. What results, then, is a poignant look at the literary practices of ordinary people and an affecting meditation on the moral lives of men in antebellum America.
Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
Published: 1903
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13:
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Author: Margaret Frazer
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2002-12-03
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1440673934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSt. Mary’s nunnery is a place of prayer and healing for women—so it is surprising to see a man sprawled out in the cloister garden. Dead. Less surprising, to Dame Frevisse, was the identity of the victim. Master Montfort was not particularly liked by anyone in the town of Goring—even his own wife and clerk. As royal escheator, he was trying to settle a heated inheritance dispute between a wealthy woman and her supposed nephew. Now Dame Frevisse must step in and untangle the fortunes and felonies in this complicated case of political and familial rivalries. But her real challenge is to put aside her feelings and serve justice for the murder of an unjust man.
The Tales of The Clerk and The Wife of Bath
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1134989415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first feminist edition of these two tales. Wynne-Davies addresses the social and cultural context of the poems' production in a critical commentary to the texts. Also includes a line by line gloss and a historical introduction.
The Merchant's Prologue and Tale
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-06-02
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 1316615472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Merchant's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.
The Clerk's Tale
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
Published: 1867
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13:
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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-09-20
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1316615650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic respected series in a stunning new design. This edition of The Clerk's Prologue and Tale from the highly-respected Selected Tales series includes the full, complete text in the original Middle English, along with an in-depth introduction by James Winny, detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary.
Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales
Author: Robert M. Correale
Publisher: DS Brewer
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780859918282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This edition ... contains the sources and major analogues of Chaucer's works (some re-edited from manuscripts closer to his own copies) together with discoveries from the past half-century, some of which have not previously appeared together in print. Special features in this new enterprise include a fresh interpretation of Chaucer's sources for the frame of the work, and modern English translations of all non-English texts; chapters on the individual tales contain an updated survey of the present state of scholarship on their source material".--BOOKJACKET.
