The Canterbury Tales: A Selection (Penguin Popular Classics) Paperback - 2007

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 1st. Thus. 1.3.5.7.9.10.8.6.4.2.* Date of Publication: 1996 * Publisher: Penguin Books.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers. Coloured illustration showing pilgrims on the Canterbury road. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to corners and covers. Small nick to back cover. No creases to spine or hinge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no visible faults. Seems un-read. Very slight colouration to page edges. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 337 pp. text. ix pp. Glossary & Advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- The Canterbury Tales, compiled in the late fourteenth century, is an incisive portrait, infused with Chaucer's wry wit and vibrant, poetical language. He evokes a spectrum of colourful characters, from the bawdy Wife of Bath to the gallant Knight, the fastidious Prioress and the burly, drunken Miller. As they wend their way from Southwark to Canterbury, tales are told to pass the time, and the stories are as diverse as the narrators, encompassing themes such as adultery, revenge, courtly love, lechery, avarice and penitence..* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG.*