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CANTERBURY TALES: SELECTIONS + Theodore Dreister SHORT STORIES + The Time Machine By H.G. Wells - THREE SEPARATE BOOKS
Chaucer, Geoffrey
1994 30259 Canterbury Tales: Selections At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, in the London of the late 1300s, a band of men and women from all walks of life have gathered to begin a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Beeket at Canterbury. To relieve the tedium of the journey, the host of the inn proposes that each of the pilgrims tell a favorite story, promising that the best storyteller will be treated to a fine dinner on the group's return to Southwark. So begins one of the earliest masterpieces of English literature, a collection of stories as much prized for the portraits of its storytellers as for the stories they tell -- portraits that reveal much of the rich social fabric of 14th-century England. Now three of the most popular tales -- along with the charming General Prologue -- have been selected for this edition: The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Prologue and Tale and The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. Animated by Chaucer's sly humor, flair for characterization and wise humanity, the stories have been recast into modern verse that captures the lively spirit of the originals. Highly entertaining, they represent an excellent entree to the rest of The Canterbury Tales and to the pleasures of medieval poetry in general. SYNOPSIS Includes the General Prologue, The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Prologue and Tale and The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. Second book: H.G. Wells "The Time Machine. First published by William Heinemann in London 1895, 80 pages. Third and last book in this offering: Theodore Dreiser SHORT STORIES - FIVE superb stories are in this 112 page volume that avividly attests to the sincerity and depty of Dreiser's gifts as a powerful and original storyteller. They are "Free", The Second Choice,, Married, N....Jeff (a powerful and disturbing story of a lynching), and the Lost Phoebe. For adults and young people. THREE BOOKS IN ALL of classic literature. ! Dover Publications, Incorporated 0-486-28241-4 / 9780486282411
Paperback As New New York
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10.00 USD
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