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Old 11-27-2002, 05:22 PM   #149
Melusine
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Join Date: January 8, 2001
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Age: 45
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Originally posted by Djinn Raffo:


Ok a book that i have just read the first four pages of.. It is the Cantebury Tales... I have heard enough about it to know it is a very important book in the history of books.. but has anyone else read this book? and can you talk about Chaucer to me and tell me what kind of person he was to write this? Tell me about this book a little bit please...
Djinn, I have read some of the Canterbury Tales (still know large excerpts by heart ), as well as Chaucer's Parliament of Foules, The Booke Of The Duchess and some more random stuff. My boyfriend's the real expert though, he's just finished writing an essay comparing Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde to Henryson's Testament of Cresseid. I've beentrying to get him to post in the Books forum on Pandemonium actually... he would probably be able to give you some background info... I'm a bit rusty myself and I lent him my copy of the Riverside Chaucer
Anyway I'll let him know you're reading the Canterbury Tales and ask him if he could post a bit on Panda [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img]

On a different note, good to see this thread active again! [img]smile.gif[/img] I've been reading lots lately... just finished Auel's The Clan Of The Cave Bear and Ian McEwan's short stories compilation First Love, Last Rites. Before that it was Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently Omnibus and I also started in William Burroughs Naked Lunch, which I had to take back to the library before I could finish it
Will try again some other time though. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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