A simplified and shortened retelling of the Chaucer classic which remains faithful to the original Middle English text in the treatment of the story.

 

This book features in the following series: Classics Retold, Usborne Classics Retold .

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Sarah Courtauld lives in London and writes and illustrates children's books. Her favourite writers for children are Tove Jansson, Andy Stanton, Roald Dahl, John Masefield, Cressida Cowell and Lemony Snicket, although her all time favourite children's book is The Princess Bride. Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.

This book is in the following series:

Classics Retold

Usborne Classics Retold
These simplified and shortened retellings make great literary classics accessible. Each remains faithful to the original text in the treatment of the story.

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