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Secondhand book for saleIan Serraillier.
The Road to Canterbury: Tales from Chaucer.
Published London: Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1999 reprint (previously issued 1981; original edition was Penguin, 1979).
Series: New Windmills.
ISBN 0435122592.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; printed boards, published without a dustjacket.
Printer: Clays Ltd., St. Ives.
Size: 128x192x11mm.
Page count: 144pp; illustrated with monochrome woodcuts by John Lawrence.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs etc. here & there, but otherwise doesn’t look heavily used.
This item £3.50
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)[
Publisher’s price £7.50]
Weight without packaging: 201g.
Retells nine of the Canterbury Tales in modern English prose, with a good selection of the linking narratives rendered into modern rhymed verse. Looks suitable for secondary education, or for someone who wants an overview of the Tales but doesn’t want to get into the full version.
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