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General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2000
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Poesía
ISBN:
9780485610062
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A collection of ten critical essays on the Prologue to Chaucer’s well-known work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

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