Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)

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By Geoffrey Chaucer

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The first volume of our new Series Three offers the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer, with medieval illustrations, scholarly features, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material.

  • Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Chaucer's life and works

  • Concise introductions to the poems and other texts

  • Images of how the books were first illustrated, giving your eReader a taste of the medieval texts

  • Excellent formatting of the poetry

  • THE CANTERBURY TALES features the original Ellesmere Manuscript illustrations of the pilgrims

  • Offers two versions of the major texts THE CANTERBURY TALES and TROILUS AND CRISEDYE, each with individual contents tables and links: The Oxford University 1894 scholarly text, with original spellings and line numbers (ideal for students) AND a modernised spellings and annotated text version to help the general reader now you can truly enjoy Chaucers language!

  • Special criticism section, with essays by writers such as G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce evaluating Chaucers contribution to literature

  • Features four biographies immerse yourself in Chaucer's medieval world!

  • Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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    CONTENTS:

    The Poetry

    THE ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE

    THE BOOK OF THE DUCHESS

    THE HOUSE OF FAME

    ANELIDA AND ARCITE

    PARLEMENT OF FOULES

    TROILUS AND CRISEYDE (ORIGINAL TEXT)

    TROILUS AND CRISEYDE (MODERNISED AND ANNOTATED)

    THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN

    THE CANTERBURY TALES (ORIGINAL TEXT)

    THE CANTERBURY TALES (MODERNISED AND ANNOTATED)

    MINOR POEMS

    The Non-Fiction

    BOECE

    TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE

    The Criticism

    CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES by Grace Eleanor Hadow

    ON MR. GEOFFREY CHAUCER by G. K. Chesterton

    ADVENTURES IN CRITICISM by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

    LECTURES ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER by William Hazlitt

    Extract from MY LITERARY PASSIONS by William Dean Howells

    THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION by Andrew Lang

    THE PASTONS AND CHAUCER by Virginia Woolf

    Extract from INTRODUCTION TO THE PAINTINGS by D. H. Lawrence

    Extract from REALISM AND IDEALISM IN ENGLISH LITERATURE by James Joyce

    The Biographies

    CHAUCER AND HIS ENGLAND by G. G. Coulton

    CHAUCER by Sir Adolphus William Ward

    CHAUCERS OFFICIAL LIFE by James Root Hulbert

    BRIEF LIFE OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER by D. Laing Purves

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