Troilus and Cressida
$43.99
- Paperback
348 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2002
Summary
Often called the first great English novel, Troilus and Cressida, a tragic love story set during the siege of Troy, is Chaucer’s masterpiece. Troilus, a valiant warrior, is scornful of love until he catches a glimpse of Cressida. With the help of his friend and her uncle Pandarus, Troilus wins Cressida over. But their happiness is destroyed when, summoned to a Greek camp, Cressida seeks the protection of one Diomede and ultimately betrays Troilus.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375757365 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375757368 |
| Author: | Geoffrey Chaucer, George Philip Krapp, Peter G. Beidler |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 348 |
| Edition: | 2002nd |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2002 |
| Weight: | 411g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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Critics Review
“Chaucer’s greatest poem.”- C. S. Lewis
“Chaucer’s greatest poem.”—C. S. Lewis
Geoffrey Chaucer
George Philip Krapp (1872-1934) was a renowned authority on Anglo-Saxon.
Peter G. Beidler is a professor of English at Lehigh University and editor of The Wife of Bath and, with Elizabeth Biebel, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale- An Annotated Bibliography.
Cindy Vitto is a professor of English at Rowan University and author of The Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature and the co-editor of The Rusted Hauberk- Feudal Ideals of Order and Their Decline.
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