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The Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library)
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This is one of those books I read as a student of language. It is also one of the most significant works in the English language. The Canterbury Tales give students of the English language an excellent sample of Middle English (200 years before Shakespeare). At the same time, they provide an unparalleled glimpse of life in fourteenth-century England. To the adventurous I recommend reading it in the original Middle English.
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Mar 21, 2020 01:50AM
Thank you for this awesome review!
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Kristian Josifoski wrote: "Thank you for this awesome review!"Thank you for thinking it is awesome and for telling me so!
Bayan wrote: "Why do you think it is very unlikely that Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrim narrators, for example - the Pardoner, would never have joined for such a fictitious pilgrimage? How is a section of the Medieva..."I'm afraid these are questions that a literary scholar would have to answer, someone far more educated than I. Chaucer wrote the tales between 1387 and 1400 and it was his intention to write a criticial and satirical portrait of the society in which he lived. Considering the power and authority of the church at that time, I think it is quite probable that all of his characters could have joined such a pilgrimage — to atone for their sins.
