The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer [PENGUIN TRADE PAPERBACK]

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer TRADE PAPERBACK [2003] PENGUIN CLASSICS EDITION Penguin Classics white label edition paperback.   Book is in very good condition;  light edge wear to cover and some mild tanning to pages.   The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer's genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales. If we trust the General Prologue, Chaucer intended that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back.