Geoffrey Chaucer “The Canterbury Tales” Vintage Paperback c.1989

The Canterbury Tales
This Norton Critical Edition offers a scholarly and accessible gateway to Geoffrey Chaucer’s masterpiece.
Featuring modern, normalized spelling alongside the original Middle English, it is an indispensable tool for readers and students looking to engage deeply with 14th-century literature.
With its comprehensive notes and supplementary essays, this volume remains a cornerstone text for the study of medieval storytelling.

#### **Book Details**
* **Author:** Geoffrey Chaucer
* **Illustrator:** Cover art features medieval manuscript illumination.
* **Publisher:** W. W. Norton & Company
* **Binding:** Paperback
* **Edition Points:** 1989 Norton Critical Edition, later printing as indicated by O on the copyright page
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#### **Condition Report**
* **Overall Grade:** Very Good- (VG-)/Very Good (VG)
* **Cover & Spine:** Minor rubbing to extremities and slight shelf-wear along the edges. The spine has one very slight crease near front of book, but is not rolled or cracked.  A hint of reading curl to outer edge of front cover.  Textblock has a thin stain at bottom outer corner.
* **Dust Jacket:** N/A
* **Text Block & Pages:** The paper is off-white/cream and in clean, readable condition.  Contains some marginal annotations, mostly in the first 100 or so pages.
* **Binding:** Solid, no loose, torn or folded pages.

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