Subscribe to the Random House What's New Newsletter.
Your Email Address:
Subscribe with web-based news readers.
Click your choice:
Geoffrey Chaucer
Subscribe to our RSS/XML feed with web-based news readers.
Click your choice:
author spotlight
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), often referred to as “the grandfather of English literature,” is invariably ranked with Shakespeare and Milton as one of the three greatest poets of the English language. His masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, has been a touchstone for English-language poetry for more than half a millennium and is one of the most widely read works in the Western canon.
- share:
- (what's this?)
author bookshelf
|
||||
The Canterbury Tales
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $17.00
Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $17.00
Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language... Read more >
|
||||
The Canterbury Tales
Format: Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1982
Price: $5.99
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1982
Price: $5.99
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval... Read more >
|
||||
The Canterbury Tales
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $36.00
It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the other in works ranging from John Bunyan, Voltaire, and Mark Twain to the popular entertainments of our own time... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $36.00
It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the other in works ranging from John Bunyan, Voltaire, and Mark Twain to the popular entertainments of our own time... Read more >
|
||||
Canterbury Tales
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer’s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer’s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories... Read more >
|
||||
The Canterbury Tales
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1965
Price: $10.00
David Wright's prose version of Chaucer's classic. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1965
Price: $10.00
David Wright's prose version of Chaucer's classic. Read more >
|
||||
Troilus and Cressida
Format: Trade Paperback, 348 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $19.00
Often called the first great English novel, Troilus and Cressida, a tragic love story set during the siege of Troy, is Chaucer’s masterpiece. Troilus, a valiant warrior, is scornful of love until he catches a glimpse of Cressida. With the help of his friend and her uncle Pandarus, Troilus wins Cressida... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 348 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $19.00
Often called the first great English novel, Troilus and Cressida, a tragic love story set during the siege of Troy, is Chaucer’s masterpiece. Troilus, a valiant warrior, is scornful of love until he catches a glimpse of Cressida. With the help of his friend and her uncle Pandarus, Troilus wins Cressida... Read more >
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
The Canterbury Tales
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $5.99
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $5.99
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval... Read more >
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
The Canterbury Tales
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $36.00
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $36.00
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval... Read more >
Page 1 of 1
