Canterbury Tales - Chaucer - A Bantam Dual-Language Book Chaucer - Edited by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt - 1964 8th Paperback

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This book offers a massive selection from The Canterbury Tales together with a facing-page translation designed as both a help to the beginner and as an independently readable entity.

Most people who are acquainting themselves with Chaucer for the first time do so in a class in literature, where the time allotted to the Tales must be short. If they use a translation, they may read enough to begin to see how a number of tales illuminate each other and what the whole work is like, but they do not hear Chaucer's voice. This seems a pity, considering how much easier for us his language is than a foreign one.

Contrariwise, if they read in the original "The Prologue" and two or three of the tales, they hear the voice but miss the variety and multiple reference.

The present book seeks to overcome this dilemma.

Blurb: “this BANTAM DUAL-LANGUAGE BOOK gives you

 a brilliant selection of tales from one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature presented in the original Middle English

a definitive, modern English translation printed on facing pages the work by the hon

a critical-biographical introduction to

notes on obscure references

Bantam Dual-Language Books are designed for everyone who wants to read good literature - everyone interested in a foreign language.”