The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

  • Interest Level: Grade 7 - Grade 12
  • Reading Level: Grade 10

An oddly diverse group of twenty-nine people meet at an inn. Each of them is on a pilgrimage to a martyr’s shrine in Canterbury. The Host suggests the strange bunch journey together and tell stories to pass the time. The group heads off, including a Knight, a Miller, a Wife, a Cook, a Shipman, and a Nun, among others, telling stories that range from bawdy exploits to foolish workers to the lives of saints. A classic of English literature, this unabridged version of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales was first published in the early 1400s and edited into modern English by D. Laing Purves in 1879. Purves’s collection of Chaucer’s works also contains Troilus and Cressida and additional poems and prose.

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978-1-4677-6847-4
$14.99
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Interest Level Grade 7 - Grade 12
Reading Level Grade 10
Genre Young Adult
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Brand First Avenue Classics ™
Imprint First Avenue Editions ™
Language English
Publication Date 2014-08-01
Text Type Fiction
BISACS FIC004000, FIC029000, POE022000
Dewey 821'.1
ATOS Reading Level 8.1
Accelerated Reader® Points 26.0
Features Endnote, Introductory note, and Table of contents