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Geoffrey Chaucer; trans. Nevill Coghill.
The Canterbury Tales.

Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 22nd reprint (previously issued with revisions 1977; original edition was 1951).
Series: Penguin Classics.
ISBN 0140440224;
ISBN-13 9780140440225.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Clays Ltd., St. Ives plc.
Size: 110×180×22mm.
Page count: 526pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some mild scuffs and creases on its covers, a little wear on the edges and corners; pages yellowed with age; the spine has a couple of small horizontal cracks on it, but is not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.


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Weight without packaging: 256g.

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Contents: translates most of the Tales into modern English verse; however, the Tale of Melibee and the Parson’s Tale are given only short prose summaries.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 8pp
Notes: at foot of page end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no


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