Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales
Chaucer
Free public domain
Chaucer · 61 chapters
Book Information
- Chapters61
Learn This Book
Your Progress
What You'll Learn
- Literary English
- Everyday expressions
- Advanced vocabulary
- Long sentence structures
Quotes from this book
It is the immediate precursor of the Canterbury Tales, and enables us to see how the poet was led on towards the composition of that immortal poem.
both are visions; both are in three books; in both, the authors seek abstraction from surrounding troubles by venturing into the realm of imagination.
Chapters
Without signing in you can open chapter 1 as a sample; later chapters need an account.
- INTRODUCTION TO THE HOUSE OF FAMESample
- INTRODUCTION TO THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN.
- INTRODUCTION TO A TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE.
- Book I.
- Book II.
- Book III.
- THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN.
- I. THE LEGEND OF CLEOPATRA.
- II. THE LEGEND OF THISBE OF BABYLON.
- III. THE LEGEND OF DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE.
- IV. THE LEGEND OF HYPSIPYLE AND MEDEA.
- V. THE LEGEND OF LUCRETIA.
- VI. THE LEGEND OF ARIADNE.
- VII. THE LEGEND OF PHILOMELA.
- VIII. THE LEGEND OF PHYLLIS.
- IX. THE LEGEND OF HYPERMNESTRA.
- PROLOGUE.
- Part I.
- Part II.
- SUPPLEMENTARY PROPOSITIONS.
- COMMENTARY ("FOOTNOTES").
- CRITICAL NOTES.
- Book I.
- Book II.
- Book III.
- NOTES TO THE PROLOGUE.
- I. THE LEGEND OF CLEOPATRA.
- II. THE LEGEND OF THISBE.
- III. THE LEGEND OF DIDO.
- Part I. ) THE LEGEND OF HYPSIPYLE
- Part II. THE LEGEND OF MEDEA
- V. THE LEGEND OF LUCRETIA.
- VI. THE LEGEND OF ARIADNE.
- VII. THE LEGEND OF PHILOMELA.
- VIII. THE LEGEND OF PHYLLIS.
- IX. THE LEGEND OF HYPERMNESTRA.
- NOTES TO THE TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE.
- SOURCES OF THE CANTERBURY TALES.
- FOOTNOTES.