"This book has been more helpful to the students--both the better ones and the lesser ones--than any other book I have ever used in any of my classes in my more than a quarter century of university teaching."--RICHARD L. KIRKWOOD, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
. The medieval masterpiece's most popular tales, including-new to the Third Edition-The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale.
. Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface and a guide to Chaucer's language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson.
. Sources and analogues arranged by tale.
. Fourteen critical essays, eight of them new to the Third Edition.
. A Chronology, a Short Glossary and a Selected Bibliography.
