Canterbury Tales
by Barbara Cohen
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Author: Barbara CohenBrand: Harper Collins Publishers
Illustrator: Trina Schart Hyman
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-08-15
ISBN: 0688062016
Number of pages: 104
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Book Review: Canterbury Tales can be fun to read
Summary: 5 Stars
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the first great works of literature in the English language and are good reading for a number of reasons. They are written in "old English", however, and read like a foreign language for most of us. Barbara Cohen's adapted translation gives us four of the tales in contemporary English and therefore provides an excellent introduction to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Cohen's tales retain Chaucer's colorful insight into fourteenth century England including life as a knight, the horror of the plague, and the religous hypocrisy of the age. The illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman are vivid and tell a story all by themselves. I use Cohen's book as a supplement to teaching medieval history and literature to 7th and 8th graders.
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