Chaucer's Major Tales
by Hoy, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0805238441
- ISBN 13
- 9780805238440
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Schocken Books [0-8052-3844-1] 1983, 1st American edition. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 178pp. Notes, bibliography, index. The spine is lightly sunned and there is a 1 / 2-inch closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. "These useful and informed essays and the ideal introduction to the Canterbury Tales for the reader who is not a specialist. The authors have drawn freely on recent medieval scholarship in preparing their own close reading of the best known sections of Chaucer's great work, including the General Prologue, the Knight's Tale, the Franklin's Tale, the Pardoner's Tale, and the Nun's Priest's Tale". Book about Geoffrey Chaucer. (Ideas, Critical Theory, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Medieval, Middle Ages).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 150678
- Title
- Chaucer's Major Tales
- Author
- Hoy, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0805238441
- ISBN 13
- 9780805238440
- Publisher
- Schocken Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- January 1, 1987
- Keywords
- Ideas, Critical Theory, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Medieval, Middle Ages, Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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- Fine
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- Sunned
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