The Canterbury Puzzles

The Canterbury Puzzles

Author: H. E. Dudeney

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2002-10-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0486425584

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This book includes 110 puzzles, not as individual problems but as incidents in connected stories. The first 31 are amusingly posed by pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Additional puzzles are presented using different characters. Many require only the ability to exercise logical or visual skills; others offer a stimulating challenge to the mathematically advanced.


The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation

The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2012-03-27

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 039334178X

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Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.


The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: Xist Publishing

Published: 2016-03-24

Total Pages: 963

ISBN-13: 1681959089

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire, The more it burns the more is its desire To burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives. ” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales are collection of stories by Chaucer, each attributed to a fictional medieval pilgrim.


Social Chaucer

Social Chaucer

Author: Paul Strohm

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780674811997

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This text analyzes the effect of Chaucer's poetry on his contemporary readers, examining how he and his audience understood their society and how this is reflected in the works. This book provides a fuller understanding of Chaucer's world and the social implications of literary styles and form.


The Pardoner's Crime

The Pardoner's Crime

Author: Keith Souter

Publisher: Robert Hale

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780709084938

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It is 1322 and Sir Richard Lee, Sergeant-at-Law, has been sent to Sandal Castle by King Edward II to preside over the court of the Manor of Wakefield. Sir Richard and his assistant are forced to investigate a vicious rape and a cold-blooded murder. Then the Pardoner confesses to a crime that everyone believes was committed by Robin Hood.


The Knight's Tale

The Knight's Tale

Author: Chaucer Geoffrey

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781016195515

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