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Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
Classic / British English. 'We'll give a free dinner to the person who tells the best story. Now, put up your hands if you agree.' The pilgrims all held up their hands. A group of pilgrims are travelling together for five days from London to Canterbury...
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Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
A group of pilgrims are travelling together for five days from London to Canterbury. On the way, each pilgrim has to tell a story to keep the others amused. Some stories are happy, and some are sad....
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Geoffrey Chauce, Michael Lacey Freeman The Canterbury Tales EN
Step back in time to experience the adventures of a group of people to Canterbury in this stunning reconstruction of 14th Century England. In 1387, a group of people went to Canterbury. On their way, they told stories. The stories were exciting and interesting. They helped the group to enjoy their time travelling. Butthese stories do not only tell us about the past. They are stories that anybody can read and enjoy…
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Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales EN
Renowned novelist, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents it in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, The Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a…
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Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales EN
Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer's unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language-and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer's work, the continual evolution of our language has rendered his words unfamiliar to many of us. Esteemed poet, translator, and…
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Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales EN
Humorné a častokrát aj kruté príbehy obyvateľov Talianska 15. storočia pripomínajúce rôznorodé rozprávania z Dekameronu. The Canterbury Tales, compiled in the late fourteenth century, is an incisive portrait, infused with Chaucer's wry wit and vibrant, poetical languauge. He evokes a spectrum of colourful characters, from the bawdy Wife of Bath to the gallant Knight, the fastidious Prioress and the burly,…
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Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales EN
Beyond all doubt the greatest work of English literature before Shakespeare, Chaucer's The Canterbury Talesbrings together an unforgettable group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, pilgrims who came from all ranks of society, from the crusading Knight and burly Miller to the worldly Monk and the famously lusty Wife of Bath. Their tales are as various as the tellers, including romance, bawdy comedy, beast fable,…
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Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales EN
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of…
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Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales EN
As Chaucer’s 14tH century pilgrims set off on a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury Cathedral, they all agree to tell a story. The five well-known tales in this reader present, in a charming and often humorous style, many aspects of the human condition: life, death, strength, weakness, good, evil, greed and, of course, love.
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Lennart Hellsing The Cantankerous Crow EN
The most maddening crow in world history is out to cause trouble! He can’t resist the farmer’s cherries – and one day he gest caught. The farmer tries to The most maddening crow in world history is out to cause trouble! He can’t resist the farmer’s cherries – and one day he gest caught. The farmer tries to punish the crow with hard labour, but the crow only causes a lot of bother. Then the farmer tries to sell the…
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The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent EN
Of the 20 ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church, the Council of Trent (1545 - 1563), is universally regarded as the greatest - in the scope of its discussion, in the number of its pronouncements, and in the extent of its influence. Here in one volume is Father Schroeder's wonderful translation of all the canons and decrees of that Council. These infallible pronouncements shine in their clarity and simplicity,…
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The Can't Sleep Colouring Book EN
Soothe away your insomnia with some wonderfully relaxing colouring. Long acknowledged to be a truly relaxing activity, colouring can help with all sorts of stress-related problems - including sleeplessness. These beautiful patterns will help you to free your mind from your worries and refocus it on relaxation. So next time you find yourself feeling restless in bed, turn to The Can't Sleep Colouring Book, create some…
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David Baldacci The Camel Club EN
It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the truth behind their country's actions. One man leads this aging, ragtag crew. He has no known past and has taken the name Oliver Stone. Day and night, Stone and his friends study wild conspiracy theories, current events, and the…
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Justin Quinn The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800–2000 EN
Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the world’s most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This introduction not only provides an essential overview of the history and development of poetry in Ireland, but also offers new approaches to aspects of the field. Justin Quinn argues that the language issues of Irish poetry have been misconceived and re…
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Alan Lewis The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour EN
Psychologists have been observing and interpreting economic behaviour for at least fifty years, and the last decade, in particular, has seen an escalated interest in the interface between psychology and economics. The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour is a valuable reference resource dedicated to improving our understanding of the economic mind and economic behaviour. Employing empirical…
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Noel Lenski The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine EN
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history,…
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Steven Crowell The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism EN
Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, the first to be devoted…
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Simon Beckett The Calling of the Grave EN
At first glance it could have been anything – a stone, a knotted root – until you looked more closely. Thrusting out of the wet earth, its bones visible through rags of flesh, was a decomposing hand...’ It was eight years ago that they found the body buried on the moor. They were certain that this was one of psychotic rapist and multiple murderer Jerome Monk’s teenage victims. Which left just two more bodies to…
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Kelley Armstrong The Calling EN
Maya Delaney's paw-print birthmark is the sign of what she truly is - a skin-walker. She can run faster, climb higher, and see better than nearly anyone else. Experiencing intense connections with the animals that roam the woods outside her home, Maya knows it's only a matter of time before she's able to Shift and become one of them. And she believes there may be others in her small town with surprising talents…
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Juan Marsé The Calligraphy of Dreams EN
This is the novel that secured for Juan Marsé the biggest literary prize in the world bar the Nobel. It is the culmination of the life's work of arguably the greatest living Spanish man of letters. Gracia: a working-class district of Barcelona in the shadow of civil war. Life is hard, the city is grey, the oppressive Fascist regime oversees all. With his stepfather imprisoned for opposing Franco's regime, teenager…
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Karin Fossum The Caller
One summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram beneath a maple tree. But then Lily steps outside to find her baby soaked in blood...
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Chris Carter The Caller EN
After a tough week, Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a relaxing night in, but as she steps out of her shower, she hears her phone ring. The video call request comes from her best friend, Karen Ward. Tanya takes the call and the nightmare begins.Karen is gagged and bound to a chair in her own living room. If Tanya disconnects from the call, if she looks away from the camera, he will come after her next, the…
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Alex Barclay The Caller EN
In The Sunday Times bestselling novel 'Darkhouse', Alex Barclay took you on a terrifying excursion to hell and back. In 'The Caller', she leaves you stranded there! NYPD Detective Joe Lucchesi is on the trail of a killer locked into a dark fantasy world that has come crashing into reality with devastating result !and a rising body count. People are being murdered in their own apartments, their faces savagely beaten,…
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