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  • The Textual Tradition of Chaucer's Troilus

    by Robert Kilburn Root ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1916, The Textual Tradition of Chaucer’s Troilus compares the best unprinted manuscripts of Chaucer’s Troilus with the printed texts. The purpose of the volume is to evaluate eighteen manuscripts, to determine so far as may be their relation to one another and to Chaucer’s original, and to show how they are to be used for the establishing of a critical text. This book will be of ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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    by William Shakespeare, Adrian Poole ...
    'Shakespeare invented the human as we continue to know it' Harold BloomSet in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Shakespeare's immortal drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers, rival dynasties and bloody revenge. Romeo and Juliet is a hymn to youth and the thrill of forbidden love, charged with sexual passion and violence, but also a warning of death: a dazzling combination of bawdy ... Read more

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  • The Wife Of Bath's Tale

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    When an eclectic group of pilgrims take turns telling tales while on the road to Canterbury Cathedral, the Wife of Bath, an older woman who has been married and widowed five times, tells her tale . . . eventually. But first she shares her opinions on marriage and the role of women with her fellow pilgrims.One of the strongest and most memorable voices in The Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath is ... Read more

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  • Middle English Literature

    Edited by Charles W. Dunn ...
    For the first time available in paperback, this classic anthology provides readers with important literary works composed during the Middle English period (1100-1500) in England, Scotland, and Ireland. The editors provide glosses for all unfamiliar words and obscure phrases and every selection refers to at least one definitive edition where details of recent scholarship can be found. Modern ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Hortulanus Commentary on the Emerald Tablet: A Briefe Commentarie of Hortulanus the Philosopher upon the Smaragdine Table of Hermes of Alchimy

    by Hortulanus ...
    Laude, honour, power and glorie, be given to thee, O Almightie Lorde God, with thy beloved sonne, our Lord Iesus Christ, and the holy Ghost, the comforter. O holy Trinitie, that art the onely one God, perfect man, I give thee thankes that having the knowledge of the transitorie things of this worlde (least I should bee provoked with the pleasures thereof) of thy abundant mercie thou hast taken mee ... Read more

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  • The Canterbury Tales

    The First Fragment

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    The most complete of all remaining surviving fragments sections of The Canterbury Tales, the First Fragment contains some of Chaucer's most widely enjoyed work. In The General Prologue, Chaucer introduces his pilgrims through a set of speaking portraits, drawn with a clarity that makes no attempt to conceal their peculiarities. The four tales that follow - those of the Knight, Miller, Reeve and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Knight's Tale

    In its original form and with a modern translation

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    When an eclectic group of pilgrims take turns telling tales while on the road to Canterbury Cathedral, the Knight tells the tale of Arcite and Palamon, two young aristocrats from Thebes who are captured in battle by Theseus. When the captives spy the beautiful maiden Emily from their prison window, they immediately fall in love and become rivals.This special edition of “The Knight’s Tale,” one of ... Read more

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  • A Grammar of the English Tongue - The Original Classic Edition

    by Johnson Samuel ...
    Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of A Grammar of the English Tongue.This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Samuel Johnson, which is now, at last, again available to you.Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside A Grammar of the English Tongue:Our ... Read more

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  • The Canterbury Tales, the New Translation

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    One spring day, the Narrator of The Canterbury Tales rents a room at the Tabard Inn before he recommences his journey to Canterbury. That evening, a group of people arrive at the inn, all of whom are also going to Canterbury to receive the blessings of "the holy blissful martyr," St. Thomas à Becket. Calling themselves "pilgrims" because of their destination, they accept the Narrator into their ... Read more

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  • The Collected Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

    PergamonMedia

    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Haweis, John Dryden ...
    This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 8950 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems • Chaucer's Works • Troilus and Criseyde • The Canterbury Tales • Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key • Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems • Notes to the Canterbury Tales • Dryden's Palamon and Arcite • Chaucer's ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer : The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, The Treatise on the Astrolabe with an Account on the Sources of the Canterbury Tales, Volume III (Illustrated)

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    “The present edition of Chaucer contains an entirely new Text, founded solely on the manuscripts and on the earliest accessible printed editions. For correct copies of the manuscripts, I am indebted, except in a few rare instances, to the admirable texts published by the Chaucer Society. In each case, the best copy has been selected as the basis of the text, and has only been departed from where ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Samson Agonistes And Other Poetical Works (Mobi Classics)

    by John Milton ...
    Samson Agonistes draws on the story of Samson from the Old Testament, Judges 13-16; in fact it is a dramatization of the story starting at Judges 16:23. The drama starts in medias res. Samson has been captured by the Philistines, had his hair, the container of his strength, cut off and his eyes cut out. Samson is "Blind among enemies, O worse than chains" (66). Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free ... Read more

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