The Canterbury Tales

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Penguin UK, Sep 3, 2015 - Juvenile Fiction - 128 pages

A lively re-telling of the medieval classic.

One fine spring day, thirty pilgrims set off from Harry Bailey's inn in Southwark for the shrine of Thomas A Becket in Canterbury. The innkeeper makes an offer that none of the travellers can refuse: a free dinner at his inn, on their return, to the person who can tell the best story. So begins the assortment of tales from such varied characters as the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Miller and many more.

 

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Contents

Prologue
A Barrel of Laughs
The Test of a Good Wife
Deaths Murderers
Snowy Crow
Old January and Young

Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2015)

Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in about 1342. He was valued highly by Edward III, who paid part of his ransom when he was captured fighting in France in 1360. He rose in royal employment, becoming a Justice of the Peace and was buried in 1400 in Westminster Abbey.

Born and educated in Enfield, North London, Geraldine McCaughrean is the youngest of three children. She worked at a London publishing house for ten years, and now works from home, in Berkshire. She has written around a hundred and sixty books, mostly for children. She has won numerous awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year Children's Novel Award, The Guardian Prize, and the Carnegie Medal.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Canterbury Tales
AuthorsGeoffrey Chaucer, Geraldine McCaughrean
ContributorGeraldine McCaughrean
Editionreprint
PublisherPenguin UK, 2015
ISBN0141366710, 9780141366715
Length128 pages
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Juvenile Fiction / Classics
  
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