Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Cressida and more. (mobi) [Kindle Edition]

Geoffrey Chaucer (Author)

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This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.

Table of Contents

The Canterbury Tales
The Assembly of Fowls
Chaucer's A. B. C
Chaucer's Dream
The Court of Love
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
The House of Fame
The Legend of Good Women
Miscellaneous Poems
Troilus and Cressida

Appendix
Geoffrey Chaucer Biography

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1259 KB
• Publisher: MobileReference (August 28, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001F0WZ5W
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #895,162 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the Edition you Want, April 29, 2009

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This review is from: Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Cressida and more. (mobi) (Kindle Edition)

This Kindle version is taken from the Everyman Edition. So it's the original version of the Canterbury Tales and not one of those gawdawful English "translations" of it. Since the dictionary attached to the Kindle doesn't understand a lot of the spelling and definitions of some of the more obscure words, there are little asterisked in-line translations of the meaning usually included on the same line as the verse. It takes a bit of getting used to. Here's an example of some of the opening lines that include the inline glossary:

When that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet

The drought of March hath pierced to the root...

The tender croppes* and the younge sun *twigs, boughs

Have the ram his halfe course y-run

Now, since the Kindle screen is too narrow for some of the text in its native font, the lines might get jumbled up a bit, so the second couplet above might show up as:

The tender croppes* and the younge sun *twigs,

boughs

Have the ram his halfe course y-run

But this is minor and not really distracting. It's just a matter of getting accustomed to it. Highly recommend this edition.

2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars happy with the quality, September 9, 2008

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This review is from: Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Cressida and more. (mobi) (Kindle Edition)

Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Including The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Cressida and more. FREE Author's biography and stories in the trial version.

Reading Kindle version of "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer" is a pure pleasure. Great ebook!