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Winthrop Wetherbee.
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales.
Publisher: Cambridge U.P., 1989.
Series: Landmarks of World Literature.
ISBN 0521311594;
ISBN-13: 9780521311595.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: University Press, Cambridge.
Size: 126x197x10mm.
Page count: x,137pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some scuffs on the covers, a bit of wear at the edges and corners, spine rather creased and skewed from reading; pages yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.

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This item £3.00
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for 2nd edn. £14.99]
Weight without packaging: 166g.

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Please note: this book is a literary study and does not include an edition of the Canterbury Tales.

Contents: Intro. — Chaucer & his poem — language — text of the Tales; General Prologue; Gentles — chivarly & the courtly world; Churls — commerce & the material world; Women; Art & problems of tale-telling; Final tales; Afterword — reception of the Tales.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 3pp
Index: yes

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