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The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions) Paperback – May 1, 2018
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“This book has been more helpful to the students―both the better ones and the lesser ones―than any other book I have ever used in any of my classes in my more than a quarter century of university teaching.”
―RICHARD L. KIRKWOOD, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
• The medieval masterpiece’s most popular tales, including―new to the Third Edition―The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun’s Prologue and Tale.
• Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface, and a guide to Chaucer’s language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson.
• Sources and analogues arranged by tale.
• Twelve critical essays, seven of them new to the Third Edition.
• A Chronology, a Short Glossary, and a Selected Bibliography.
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Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format―annotated text, contexts, and criticism―helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
- Print length720 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication dateMay 1, 2018
- Dimensions5.6 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches
- ISBN-101324000562
- ISBN-13978-1324000563
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Glending Olson is Professor Emeritus of English, Cleveland State University. He is the author of Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages.
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- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; Third edition (May 1, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 720 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1324000562
- ISBN-13 : 978-1324000563
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.6 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #246,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #79 in Medieval Literary Criticism (Books)
- #140 in Christian Poetry (Books)
- #195 in British & Irish Poetry
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Reviewed in Italy on July 29, 2022






Doubtless an excellent academic book, but don't buy unless you're familiar with Middle English.
