The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue: Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism

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.