# The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue

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- Authors: [Geoffrey Chaucer](https://www.bookquiver.com/geoffrey-chaucer), [V. A. Kolve](https://www.bookquiver.com/v-a-kolve), [Glending Olson](https://www.bookquiver.com/glending-olson)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2018-05-01
- Genres: Literature: history and criticism

## Description

This Norton Critical Edition includes:• The medieval masterpiece’s most popular tales, including—new to the Third Edition—The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun’s Prologue and Tale. • Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface and a guide to Chaucer’s language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson. • Sources and analogues arranged by tale. • Fourteen critical essays, eight of them new to the Third Edition. • A Chronology, a Short Glossary and a Selected Bibliography.

## Editions

### The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue

- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- ISBN: 978-13-2400-056-3
- Pages: 720
- Published: 2018-05-01
- Language: en_US