Author: ChaucerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Clerkes Tale
Author: ChaucerThe Clerk's Tale
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Clerk's Tale
Author: Thomas AugstPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679573X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Thousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth-century America, where many of them found work as clerks. The Clerk's Tale recounts their remarkable story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at the dawn of the modern era. How did these young men understand the volatile world of American capitalism and make sense of their place within it? Thomas Augst follows clerks as they made their way through the boarding houses, parlors, and offices of the big city. Tracing the course of their everyday lives, Augst shows how these young men used acts of reading and writing to navigate the anonymous world of market culture and claim identities for themselves within it. Clerks, he reveals, calculated their prospects in diaries, composed detailed letters to friends and family, attended lectures by key thinkers of the day, joined libraries where they consumed fiction, all while wrestling with the boredom of their work. What results, then, is a poignant look at the literary practices of ordinary people and an affecting meditation on the moral lives of men in antebellum America.
The Clerk's Tale
Author: Margaret FrazerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440673934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
St. Mary’s nunnery is a place of prayer and healing for women—so it is surprising to see a man sprawled out in the cloister garden. Dead. Less surprising, to Dame Frevisse, was the identity of the victim. Master Montfort was not particularly liked by anyone in the town of Goring—even his own wife and clerk. As royal escheator, he was trying to settle a heated inheritance dispute between a wealthy woman and her supposed nephew. Now Dame Frevisse must step in and untangle the fortunes and felonies in this complicated case of political and familial rivalries. But her real challenge is to put aside her feelings and serve justice for the murder of an unjust man.
The Merchant's Prologue and Tale
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316615472
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Merchant's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.
Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerThe Clerk's Prologue and Tale
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316615650
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The classic respected series in a stunning new design. This edition of The Clerk's Prologue and Tale from the highly-respected Selected Tales series includes the full, complete text in the original Middle English, along with an in-depth introduction by James Winny, detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary.
The Cambridge Companion to ‘The Canterbury Tales'
Author: Frank GradyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107181003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
A lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer's best-known poem.
The Man of Law's Tale
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales
Author: Robert M. CorrealePublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780859918282
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
"This edition ... contains the sources and major analogues of Chaucer's works (some re-edited from manuscripts closer to his own copies) together with discoveries from the past half-century, some of which have not previously appeared together in print. Special features in this new enterprise include a fresh interpretation of Chaucer's sources for the frame of the work, and modern English translations of all non-English texts; chapters on the individual tales contain an updated survey of the present state of scholarship on their source material".--BOOKJACKET.