Chaucer's Canterbury tales (selected) : an interlinear translation
(Book)

"'The Canterbury Tales' is among the earliest of the great narrative poems written in the English language. Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400), penned his masterpiece in the English widely used in the London area during his lifetime - a language of rich vitality, but also very different from the English we speak today. This volume presents readers with the vigor, liveliness, and humor of Chaucer's original Middle English poetry, interspersed line-by-line with Professor Vincent F. Hopper's modern, graceful, and easy-to-understand translation. It has been expanded and updated in this new edition by medieval scholar Andrew Galloway to include several additional key tales, further notes, and a new introduction The result is an attractive, approachable, critically praised text for students of English literature. It's also a richly entertaining volume for the general reader."--taken from back cover.

Middle English and English.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales' is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. 'The Canterbury Tales' gather twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble plowman. A graceful modern translation facing each page of the text allows the contemporary reader to enjoy the fast pace of these selections from 'The Canterbury Tales' with the poetry of the Middle English original always at first hand.