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

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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.

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!