Stories from Chaucer (2^nd Ed., Revised edition) Re-told from The Canterbury Tales

First published in 1926, as the second edition of a 1911 original, this book contains selections from The Canterbury Tales translated into Modern English for the younger reader. Numerous illustrations and a pronouncing dictionary of proper names are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in The Canterbury Tales and pedagogical approaches to Chaucer.

The prologue; Part I. The First Day: 1. The Knight's Tale of Palamon and Arcite; Part II. The Second Day: 2. The Man of Law's Tale of Constance; 3. Chaucer and The Host; 4. The Monk's Tale of the Falls of Great Men; 5. The Nun's Priest's Tale of Chanticleer; Part III. The Third Day: 6. The Wife of Bath's prologue; 7. The Wife of Bath's Tale; 8. The Friar's Tale of the Summoner and the Fiend; 9. The Friar's Tale of the Summoner; 10. The Clerk of Oxford's Tale of Patient Grieselda; Part IV. The Fourth Day: 11. The Squires Tale of Cambuscan; 12. The Pardoner's prologue; 13. The Pardoner's Tale of the three revellers; 14. The Canon's Yeoman; 15. The Manciple and the cook; 16. The Manciple's Tale; 17. The Parson's Tale; 18. Dictionary; 19. Illustrations.