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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318411549 Title: The Canterbury tales Author: Peter Ackroyd; Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher: New York : Viking, 2009. ISBN/ISSN: 9780670021222 0670021229 OCLC:318411549

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The Canterbury tales

Author:	Peter Ackroyd; Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:	New York : Viking, 2009.
Edition/Format:	Book : Fiction : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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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Genre/Form:	Adaptations Fiction
Named Person:	Geoffrey Chaucer
Material Type:	Fiction
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Peter Ackroyd; Geoffrey Chaucer Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780670021222 0670021229
OCLC Number:	318411549
Description:	xxii, 436 p. ; 26 cm.
Contents:	The knight's tale -- The miller's prologue and tale -- The reeve's prologue and tale -- The cook's prologue and tale -- The man of law's prologue, tale and epilogue -- 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, tale, and epilogue -- The squire's prologue and tale -- The franklin's prologue and tale -- The physician's tale -- The pardoner's prologue and tale -- The shipman's tale -- The prioress's prologue and tale -- Prologue and tale of Sir Thopas -- The monk's prologue and tale -- The nun's priest's prologue, tale and epilogue -- The second nun's prologue and tale -- The canon's yeoman's prologue and tale -- The manciple's prologue and tale -- The parson's prologue.
Responsibility:	Geoffrey Chaucer ; a retelling by Peter Ackroyd ; illustrated by Nick Bantock.

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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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