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"A romp for the ages" ("Vanity Fair") now with a graphic cover and deluxe packaging Renowned novelist, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents it in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, "The Canterbury Tales" concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ackroyd's contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters-as well as explicitly rendering their bawdy humor-yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer's verse. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators."

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Book category Books in Czech Beletrie pro dospělé Romány, povídky, novely Společenský román

• Full title: Canterbury Tales
• Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
• Language: English
• Binding: Book
• Number of pages: 464
• EAN: 9780143106173
• ISBN: 978-0-143-10617-3
• ID: 00198985
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 500 g
• Dimensions: 144 × 213 × 36 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. October 2010

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