Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage (1892)

By Joseph E. Grennen and Geoffrey Chaucer

Book Overview

Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage is a book written by the renowned English poet and author, Geoffrey Chaucer. Originally published in 1892, this book is a collection of stories that were written by Chaucer during the Middle Ages. The stories are about a group of pilgrims who are traveling from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. The pilgrims come from all walks of life and include a knight, a miller, a prioress, a nun, a monk, a friar, a merchant, a clerk, a lawyer, a franklin, a haberdasher, a carpenter, a weaver, a dyer, a tapestry-maker, a cook, a shipman, a physician, a pardoner, and a host. Each pilgrim tells a story during the journey, and these stories range from humorous to serious, from bawdy to moralistic. Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage is a classic work of literature that provides a window into the social and cultural world of medieval England.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1166468003
• ISBN13: 9781166468002
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An Inexpensive Aid to Mastering Chaucer's Middle English

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, published by Barron's Educational Series, uses an interlinear translation format in which each line of Middle English is followed by a modern translation (in a literal form to make the comparison easier). I like this approach.Sometimes Middle English is recognizable. This line describing the knight - Ful worthy was he in his lord's werre - is readily understood if you recognize that werre is war.Contrastingly, this sentence about the prioress is less clear: And sikerly she was of greet disport. Or in modern usage: And indeed she was very diverting.I initially used a 1948, yellowed first edition with 448 pages, but more recently I found a copy of the "new enlarged edition" with 530 pages. This 1970 edition is no longer new, but copies can still be found with little trouble. It has been reprinted many times; my copy is the fourteenth printing.Both editions include The Prologue, The Knight's Tale, The Prioress's Prologue, The Prioress's Invocation, The Prioress's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Prologue, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Epilogue, The Pardoner's Prologue, The Pardoner's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Prologue, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Franklin's Prologue, and The Franklin's Tale. The new enlarged edition includes four more sections: The Miller's Prologue, The Miller's Tale, The Reeve's Prologue, and The Reeve's Tale.Both editions offer a short introduction and a short section of notes. The translator is Vincent F. Hopper.