{"product_id":"chaucers-canterbury-tales-selected-an-interlinear-translation","title":"Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation (Paperback, 608 pages) – Barrons Educational Services, 2012. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \"Hopper's rendering is as close, as word for word, as any translation of 'The Canterbury Tales'... \" —The New YorkerGeoffrey Chaucer (c.1340–1400), penned his masterpiece in a vernacular that was the standard dialect in the southeast of England during his lifetime—a language of rich vitality, but also very different from the English we speak today. This useful volume presents readers with the vigor, liveliness, and humor of Chaucer’s original Middle English poetry, interspersed line-by-line with Professor Vincent Hopper’s modern, graceful, and easy-to-understand translation.This new edition, updated with an enlightening new introduction by Andrew Galloway, also features four newly translated narratives.The Canterbury Tales  is among the earliest of the great narrative poems written in the English language. is a set of stories that a diverse group of travelers tell to one another at the end of each day. They had set off by foot on a religious pilgrimage from the Tabard Inn in London to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket in England’s cathedral town of Canterbury. This volume opens with Chaucer’s own famous Prologue, and then presents the best among those many tales, which demonstrate Chaucer’s skill in portraying a wide range of very different personalities. For instance, we meet the religiously pious but haughty Prioress, the comically bawdy Miller, and the genially earthy Wife of Bath, among many others. Through it all, we are treated to Chaucer’s own voice, which is worldly wise, often ironic, sometimes self-deprecating, and always good-natured. Here in a newly updated edition is an attractive and approachable textbook for students of English literature. It’s also a richly entertaining volume for the enlightened general reader This new edition gives today’s readers an awareness as never before that  The Canterbury Tales  is one of the great masterpieces of world literature.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Continues to offer the benefits of the previous critically acclaimed edition by presenting the original Middle English of Chaucer’s poetry with an elegant, direct, line-by-line and often word-by-word translation. This format gives students and general readers immediate appreciation of Chaucer’s last and greatest narrative poem. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Features a new set of up-to-date notes and resources for further study. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Four additional key narratives newly translated from Chaucer’s original text respond to the modern reader’s willingness to explore  The Canterbury Tales’  brilliantly experimental approach to storytelling. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Includes a stimulating new introduction that encourages modern readers to embrace various difficult-to-understand Chaucerian turns of phrase so that they can fully appreciate the fine artistry of Chaucer’s poetic style.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   About the Author   Vincent F. Hopper was for many years Professor of English at New York University.                                           ","brand":"Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent F. Hopper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46070103179498,"sku":"9781438000138","price":10.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/91JnA1nRUiL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781243864","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/chaucers-canterbury-tales-selected-an-interlinear-translation","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}