The Merchants Tale

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316615472
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Merchant's Prologue and Tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Merchant's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.

Author : Simon Partner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544464
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Merchant's Tale written by Simon Partner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan’s 1853 “opening” to the West, he witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, the civil war that followed, and the Meiji Restoration’s reforms. The Merchant’s Tale looks through Chūemon’s eyes at the upheavals of this period. In a narrative history rich in colorful detail, Simon Partner uses the story of an ordinary merchant farmer and its Yokohama setting as a vantage point onto sweeping social transformation and its unwitting agents. Chūemon, like most newcomers to Yokohama, came in search of economic opportunity. His story sheds light on vital issues in Japan’s modern history, including the legacies of the Meiji Restoration; the East Asian treaty port system; and the importance of everyday life—food, clothing, medicine, and hygiene—for national identity. Centered on an individual, The Merchant’s Tale is also the story of a place. Created under pressure from aggressive foreign powers, Yokohama was the scene of gunboat diplomacy, a connection to global markets, the birthplace of new lifestyles, and the beachhead of Japan’s modernization. Partner’s history of a vibrant meeting place humanizes the story of Japan’s revolutionary 1860s and their profound consequences for Japanese society and culture.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871403579
Total Pages : 1017 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fabliaux written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bawdier than "The Canterbury Tales, " this is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature. Contains 69 poems with a parallel Old French text.

Author : Graham D. Caie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780582035775
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geoffrey Chaucer written by Graham D. Caie and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316615642
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Merchant's Prologue and Tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic respected series in a stunning new design. This edition of The Merchant's Prologue and Tale from the highly-respected Selected Tales series includes the full, complete text in the original Middle English, along with an in-depth introduction by Maurice Hussey, detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary.

Author : David L. Ransel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253352363
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Russian Merchant's Tale written by David L. Ransel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the rare diary of an 18th-century Russian provincial merchant, A Russian Merchant's Tale presents a revealing portrait of Russia's little-known commercial class. By recording his daily contacts with a wide array of individuals from lords to laborers for more than 40 years, Ivan Alekseevich Tolchënov opened a window onto the education, work, birth, death, marriage, business, civic, holiday, and religious practices of a social group about which little has been known. Using the tools of microhistory to interpret the diary, David L. Ransel vividly brings to life Tolchënov's self-construction, his relations with family and society, and his entire world of aspirations, achievements, and failures. Challenging prevailing stereotypes of Russian merchants as tradition-bound and narrow-minded, A Russian Merchant's Tale offers important new insights into the social history of imperial Russia.

Author : Melanie Dickerson
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310727626
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Merchant's Daughter written by Melanie Dickerson and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unthinkable danger. An unexpected choice. Annabel, once the daughter of a wealthy merchant, is trapped in indentured servitude to Lord Ranulf, a recluse who is rumored to be both terrifying and beastly. Her circumstances are made even worse by the proximity of Lord Ranulf’s bailiff—a revolting man who has made unwelcome advances on Annabel in the past. Believing that life in a nunnery is the best way to escape the escalation of the bailiff’s vile behavior and to preserve the faith that sustains her, Annabel is surprised to discover a sense of security and joy in her encounters with Lord Ranulf. As Annabel struggles to confront her feelings, she is involved in a situation that could place Ranulf in grave danger. Ranulf’s future, and possibly his heart, may rest in her hands, and Annabel must decide whether to follow the plans she has cherished or the calling God has placed on her heart.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039334178X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text) written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: