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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
The Canterbury Tales A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd - Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio Author:Geoffrey Chaucer "A romp for the ages" (Vanity Fair)-now with a graphic cover and deluxe packaging — Renowned novelist, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents it in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A m... more »irror for medieval society, The Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ackroyd's contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters-as well as explicitly rendering their bawdy humor-yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer's verse.« less
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