Chaucer, Geoffrey.
Contents: The general prologue -- The Miller's prologue and tale -- The Reeve's prologue and tale -- The Cook's prologue and tale -- The man of law's prologue and tale -- The wife of Bath's prologue and tale -- The friar's prologue and tale -- The summoner's prologue and tale -- The clerk's prologue and tale -- The merchant's prologue and tale -- The squire's prologue and tale -- The Franklin's prologue...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHWChaucer, Geoffrey
Contents: Biographical note -- Introduction -- Translator's foreword -- The Canterbury tales -- General prologue -- The Knight's tale -- The Miller's prologue -- The Miller's tale -- The Steward's prologue [the Reeve's prologue] -- The Cook's prologue -- The Cook's tale -- Introductory words to the Man of Law's tale -- Prologue to the Man of Law's tale -- The Man of Law's tale -- Epilogue to the Man of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 CHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 CHAAckroyd, Peter
Summary: Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 ACKClendinen, Dudley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.2609 CleSmith, Zadie
Summary: "In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath. The Wife of Willesden follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road. Wearing fake gold chains,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822 SMISummary: Written in the 14th century, The Canterbury Tales has stood the test of time as a landmark in the development of English literature. This innovative "frame story" owes its classic standing and impact to the diversity both of the narrators and of the styles of tales they tell. In this program, expert commentators Dr. Christiania Whitehead and Dr. Peter Mack, both of the University of Warwick,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Cohen, Barbara
Summary: A version in modern English of four of Chaucer's tales, beautifully illustrated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821.1 COHSummary: During a blackout, three train passengers arrive at Chillingbourne in Kent. Londoner Alison Smith is feisty representative of the Women's Land Army (aka the "land girls"). Bob Johnson is an American soldier whose intended destination was Canterbury. Peter Gibbs is a classical music student who worked in peacetime as a cinema organist. As they make their way through the village, Alison has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CANChaucer, Geoffrey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 CHAChaucer, Geoffrey
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Collectors Library 1934
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 CHASummary: A scholarly program that reaches out to students of The Canterbury Tales to relate its characters and themes to everyday life in late-14th-century England. Period art of exceptional richness is combined with location photography that retraces the April pilgrimage to Archbishop Becket's shrine at Canterbury; excerpts are read from various tales; and the famous beginning is heard in Middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 ChaucSummary: With the Norman invasion, English became a third language in its own country, behind French and Latin. In this program, Melvyn Bragg examines the impact of Old French on the development of English. Manuscripts, tapestries, and dozens of curious etymologies help illustrate a tremendous influx of vocabulary pertaining to romance, chivalry, and, of course, food. The influence of Eleanor of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Barnes, Steven
Summary: "From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of Buddha. Eight strangers looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his acolytes directs them to each tell a story that the group can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BARContents: v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas -- 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes -- 5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- 9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen -- 10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus -- 11. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC LocContents: v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas -- 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes -- 5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- 9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen -- 10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus -- 11. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC JAMESContents: v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas -- 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes -- 5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- 9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen -- 10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus -- 11. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC MonContents: v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas -- 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes -- 5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- 9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen -- 10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus -- 11. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC FreContents: v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas -- 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes -- 5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- 9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen -- 10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus -- 11. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC MARContents: v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas -- 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes -- 5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- 9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen -- 10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus -- 11. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC HegContents: v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas -- 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes -- 5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- 9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen -- 10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus -- 11. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC MelviContents: v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas -- 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes -- 5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- 9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen -- 10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus -- 11. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990