The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer (David Wright: Oxford World Classics)
The tales, although supposed to be by different people, are
actually rather similar in many ways, and the voice of all is
Chaucer. They nearly all have a moral, they deal in extreme
characters, and they re-use the same figures of speech. The
stories were clearly not meant to be read sequentially as
chapters in a book, but were to be read out loud to an audience
at intervals. The glossary is useful but it is not essential to
look up every reference.
Seán quite liked it, but would have preferred to read
each story separately.
Seán 24/10/04
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