{"product_id":"2940014402835","title":"The Canterbury Tales","description":"The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including \"Troilus and Criseyde\", \"House of Fame\", \"Parliament of Fowls\", the Canterbury Tales is Chaucer's magnum opus, and a towering achievement of Western culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE object of this volume is to place before the general reader our two early poetic masterpieces -- The Canterbury Tales and The Faerie Queen; to do so in a way that will render their \"popular perusal\" easy in a time of little leisure and unbounded temptations to intellectual languor; and, on the same conditions, to present a liberal and fairly representative selection from the less important and familiar poems of Chaucer and Spenser. There is, it may be said at the outset, peculiar advantage and propriety in placing the two poets side by side in the manner now attempted for the first time.","brand":"Sheba Blake Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083681382640,"sku":"2940014402835","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014402835_p0.jpg?v=1763607515","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014402835","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}