Geoffrey Chaucer

V. A. Kolve

This Norton Critical Edition includes:* The medieval masterpiece's most popular tales, including--new to the Third Edition--The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale.* Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface, and a guide to Chaucer's language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson.* Sources and analogues arranged by tale.* Twelve critical essays, seven of them new to the Third Edition.* A Chronology, a Short Glossary, and a Selected Bibliography.About the SeriesRead by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue

The Canterbury Tales

Telling Images is a study of Chaucer's narrative art and its use of symbolic images in the visual arts of his time.

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