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(0)Geoffrey Chaucer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth...
Author
Series
Publisher
Broadview Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
lxv, 446 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"includes a new glossary, a timeline of Chaucer's life and times, and detailed headers showing the section and line numbers, making it easier to find a specific section of the poem. Several popular prologues and tales have also been added to the selection: The Cook's Prologue and Tale, The Friar's Prologue and Tale, The Merchant's Prologue and Tale, and the Parson's Prologue."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
First U.S. edition
Physical Desc
143 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles, of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travelers, including a battle-worn knight, a sweetly pretentious prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath, and an emaciated scholar-clerk, come up with a plan to pass time on the journey to Thomas à Becket's shrine by telling stories. The twenty-four tales, which range from high romance set in ancient Greece to low comedy...
Series
Criterion collection volume 631
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
DVD ed., four-DVD special ed.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (352 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (63 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.)
Language
Italiano
Description
The Decameron, transposed to Naples from Boccaccio's Florence, is a cutting takedown of the pieties surrounding religion and sex.
The Arabian nights follows the adventures of a slave girl as she rises to power over a great city. Around her revolve the stories of magic and lust, mystery and fantasy that derive from three cultures (Persia, Egypt and India) and range from the ninth century to the Renaissance.
In the Canterbury tales, Pasolini's startling...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
First U.S. edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
45 pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retelling in comic strip form of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous work in which a group of pilgrims in fourteenth-century England tell each other stories as they travel on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Canterbury.