Canterbury Tales Best Translation - April 2024

The Canterbury Tales

• ASIN: 0140424385
• UPC: 783324919059
• ASIN: 0140424385
• ISBN: 0140424385
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Canterbury Tales (No Fear)

Why be frightened of the most wonderful collection of tales ever written?  No Fear: The Canterbury Tales makes it simple for students to love Chaucer’s masterpiece in all its humor, bawdiness, and poignancy.  It features the original text on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right; in addition, there is a complete list of characters with descriptions and plenty of helpful commentary.  

• ASIN: 1411426967
• ASIN: 1411426967
• ISBN: 1411426967
• Brand: Brand: SparkNotes
• Manufacturer: SparkNotes

Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales

No library's complete without the classics! This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects the legendary fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.They are the stories we've known since we were children. Rapunzel. Hansel and Gretel. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. But the works originally collected by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s are not necessarily the versions we heard before bedtime. They're darker and often don't end very happily--but they're often far more interesting.   This elegant edition of Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales includes all our cherished favorites--Snow White, Rumpelstiltsk... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1607103133
• ASIN: 1607103133
• ISBN: 1607103133
• Brand: Canterbury Classics
• Manufacturer: Canterbury Classics

My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

Now an HBO series.Book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy’s most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)   Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its protagonists, the fiery and unforgettable Lila, and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and lead... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1609450787
• UPC: 787721927150
• ASIN: 1609450787
• ISBN: 9781609450786
• Brand: Europa Editions
• Manufacturer: Europa Editions

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style. For the very first time, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm makes available in English all 156 stories from th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691160597
• ASIN: 0691160597
• ISBN: 0691160597
• Brand: Princeton University Press
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation

Begun soon after 1386 and written during several years that followed, Geoffrey Chaucer's great narrative poem The Canterbury Tales presents a richly detailed, highly entertaining, and sometimes bawdy picture of English society in the fourteenth century. Rich with humorous insights into the many foibles of humanity, this poem is considered by most literary critics and scholars to be the first great example of literary art written in vernacular English. Its narrative opens as a party of 30 men and women from various walks of life gather at the Tabard Inn in London, from where they set out on a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812000390
• ASIN: 0812000390
• ISBN: 0812000390
• Brand: Brand: Barron's Educational Series
• Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series

The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse (Hackett Classics)

Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than other translators, a four-beat rhythm well-established in the English poetic tradition up to Chaucer's time. Glaser's shortened lines make compelling reading and mirror the elegance and variety of Chaucer's verse to a degree rarely met by translations that copy Chaucer beat for beat. Moreover, this translation's full, Chaucerian range of diction--... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0872207544
• ASIN: 0872207544
• ISBN: 0872207544
• Brand: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co.
• Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

The Canterbury Tales (Puffin Classics)

David Wright's prose version of Chaucer's classic.

• ASIN: 0140380531
• ASIN: 0140380531
• ISBN: 0140380531
• Brand: Puffin
• Manufacturer: Puffin Books

Silence: A Novel (Picador Classics)

Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Review of BooksSeventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimag... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250082242
• ASIN: 1250082242
• ISBN: 1250082242
• Brand: Picador
• Manufacturer: Picador Modern Classics

The Canterbury Tales (original-spelling Middle English edition) (Penguin Classics)

One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, in the original Middle EnglishThe Canterbury Tales depicts a storytelling competition between pilgrims drawn from all ranks of society. The tales are as various as the pilgrims themselves, encompassing comedy, pathos, tragedy, and cynicism. The Miller and the Reeve express their mutual antagonism in a pair of comic stories combining sex and trickery; in “The Shipman’s Tale,” a wife sells her favors to a monk. Others draw on courtly romance and fantasy: the Knight tells of rivals competing for the love of the same woman,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 014042234X
• ASIN: 014042234X
• ISBN: 014042234X
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Canterbury Tales: Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue (Norton Critical Editions)

This Norton Critical Edition includes the most admired of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Each is presented in the original language, with normalized spelling and substantial annotations for modern readers. Among the new added to the Second Edition are the much-requested "Merchant’s Tale" and the "Tale of Sir Thopas." "Sources and Backgrounds" are included for the General Prologue and for most of the tales, enabling students to understand The Canterbury Tales in light of relevant medieval ideas and attitudes and inviting comparison between Chaucer’s work and his sources. "Criticism" includes... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393925870
• ASIN: 0393925870
• ISBN: 0393925870
• Brand: Chaucer, Geoffrey/ Kolve, V. A./ Olson, Glending
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation

One of the greatest works created by any culture and overwhelmingly the most significant of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has had a number of distinguished translations, but none encompassed the work in its entirety. Now, in one of the year's most important publishing events, the entire text has not only been made available in English but in a translation of quite remarkable clarity and beauty. With an introductory commentary by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, who calls this translation "an extraordinary accomplishment undertaken with great care over many ye... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0670858862
• UPC: 784497409583
• ASIN: 0670858862
• ISBN: 0670858862
• Brand: Brand: Viking Adult
• Manufacturer: Viking

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (Paperback)

Editorial Reviews The publisher, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, harekrishna.com/, June 15, 2001 Book Description Bhagavad-gita As It Is The Bhagavad-gita is the main source-book on yoga and a concise summary of India's Vedic wisdom. Yet remarkably, the setting for this best-known classic of spiritual literature is an ancient Indian battlefield. At the last moment before entering battle, the great warrior Arjuna begins to wonder about the real meaning of his life. Why should he fight against his friends and relatives? Why does he exist? Where is he going after death? In the Bhagavad-gita, Lord Krsna... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0892131349
• ASIN: 0892131349
• ISBN: 9780892131341
• Manufacturer: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation

A poetically faithful and compelling translation of Chaucer's classic. In the tradition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Marie Borroff's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher's The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear while inviting readers to the Middle English original on facing pages. Renowned for its astute character portraits (from the chivalrous ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393079457
• ASIN: 0393079457
• ISBN: 0393079457
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling

A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer’s classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter 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. A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer’s 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. Ranging from comedy to tragedy, pious sermon to... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0670021229
• ASIN: 0670021229
• ISBN: 0670021229
• Brand: Brand: Viking Adult
• Manufacturer: Viking

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected) : An Interlinear Translation

(back cover) The Canterbury Tales is among the earliest of the great narrative poems written in the English language. Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400), penned his masterpiece in the English widely used in the London area during

• UPC: 17177511
• Rating: 4.5

The Canterbury Tales

A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each

• UPC: 2003332
• Rating: 3.983

The Canterbury Tales : Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue

"This book has been more helpful to the students--both the better ones and the lesser ones--than any other book I have ever used in any of my classes in my more than a quarter century

• UPC: 151642770
• Rating: 3.966

The Canterbury Tales

A modern English translation, background information and glossary accompany the original Middle English text of Chaucer's poem about travelers on a

• UPC: 405850
• Rating: 4.0

The Canterbury Tales

Beyond all doubt the greatest work of English literature before Shakespeare, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales brings together an unforgettable group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, pilgrims who came from all ranks of society,

• UPC: 16000812
• Rating: 3.966

The Canterbury Tales - Audiobook

The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England. One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, in the original Middle English. The Canterbury Tales (Middle

• UPC: 285328710
• Rating: 3.966

The Canterbury Tales - eBook

The Canterbury Tales was Chaucer's magnum opus. He used the tales and the descriptions of the characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church.

• UPC: 305335574
• Rating: 3.966

The Canterbury Tales - eBook

The Canterbury Tales was Chaucer's magnum opus. He used the tales and the descriptions of the characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church.

• UPC: 476488159
• Rating: 3.966

The Canterbury Tales - eBook

Begun as an ambitious project by the versatile English courtier, diplomat, philosopher, and author Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, "The Canterbury Tales" follows a group of people on their pilgrimage to the Cathedral of

• UPC: 418543567
• Rating: 3.966

The Canterbury Tales - eBook

The General Prologue The Knight's Tale The Miller's tale The Reeve's Tale The Cook's Tale The Man of Law's Tale The Wife of Bath's Tale The Friar's Tale The Sompnour's Tale The Clerk's Tale The

• UPC: 859511554
• Rating: 3.966

Canterbury Tales : 'The Translation Is Certainly the Best We have Ever Had.'

• UPC: 113633620699
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 3 GBP