坎特伯雷故事集：彼得·阿克罗伊德改写版（企鹅经典豪华版） The Canterbury Tales:A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; Deluxe, Reprint edition (November 2, 2010)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143106173

Product weight ‏ : ‎ 499 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.48 x 2.92 x 21.34 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

“一部跨越时代的嬉戏之作”（《名利场》）——现采用图形封面和豪华包装

知名小说家、历史学家和传记作家彼得·阿克罗伊德 (Peter Ackroyd) 改编了这首可以说是英语中伟大的诗歌，并将其以散文形式呈现，让读者能够理解，同时保留了原作的精神。《坎特伯雷故事集》是中世纪社会的一面镜子，讲述了一群形形色色的朝圣者在前往坎特伯雷的途中在伦敦的一家旅馆相遇，并同意参加讲故事比赛的故事。阿克罗伊德的当代散文强调了这些人物的人性——以及明确地呈现了他们的粗俗幽默——但仍然巧妙地唤起了乔叟诗句的悦耳和和声。

七十多年来，企鹅出版社一直是英语世界古典文学的领先出版商。企鹅经典丛书拥有 1,700 多种图书，汇集了全球各个历史、流派和学科的作品。读者相信该丛书提供经典文本，并配有知名学者和当代作家的介绍和注释，以及获奖译者的新译文。

"A romp for the ages" (Vanity Fair)—now with a graphic cover and deluxe packaging

Renowned novelist, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents it in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, The Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ackroyd's contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters-as well as explicitly rendering their bawdy humor-yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer's verse.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

作者简介

彼得·阿克罗伊德是一位屡获殊荣的小说家、评论家和传记作家。

杰弗里·乔叟出生于伦敦，父亲是一名葡萄酒商，大约在 1342 年，他一生都在皇家政府服务，因此他的职业生涯记录得异常详尽。1357 年，乔叟成为爱德华三世次子莱昂内尔亲王妻子的侍从，在为亲王服务期间，乔叟在 1359-60 年的英国法国战役中被捕，并被赎回。乔叟的妻子菲利帕于 1365 年左右结婚，她是凯瑟琳·斯温福德的妹妹，凯瑟琳·斯温福德是兰开斯特公爵约翰·冈特的情妇（约 1370 年）和第三任妻子（1396 年），约翰的第1任妻子布兰奇（死于 1368 年）在乔叟的早期主要诗歌《公爵夫人之书》中被纪念。

从 1374 年起，乔叟在伦敦港担任羊毛海关主管，但在 1366 年至 1378 年期间，他多次出国处理公务，包括 1372-3 年和 1378 年两次前往意大利。乔叟接触意大利文学的影响体现在他 1370 年代末和 1380 年代初创作的诗歌中——《名望之家》、《百鸟议会》和《骑士的故事》的一个版本——并在《特洛伊罗斯与克瑞西达》中得到充分的体现。

1386 年，乔叟成为肯特郡议会议员，但同年辞去了海关职务，尽管 1389 年他被任命为国王工程书记员（1391 年辞职）。在完成《特洛伊罗斯》并将波伊提乌斯的《哲学慰藉》译成英文散文后，乔叟开始创作《好女人的传说》。1390 年代，他创作了雄心勃勃的作品《坎特伯雷故事集》，但直到他去世时，这部作品仍未完成。1399 年，乔叟在威斯敏斯特大教堂内租了一套房子，但于 1400 年去世并葬在教堂内。

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, critic, and biographer.

Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of a wine-merchant, in about 1342, and as he spent his life in royal government service his career happens to be unusually well documented. By 1357 Chaucer was a page to the wife of Prince Lionel, second son of Edward III, and it was while in the prince's service that Chaucer was ransomed when captured during the English campaign in France in 1359-60. Chaucer's wife Philippa, whom he married c. 1365, was the sister of Katherine Swynford, the lover (c. 1370) and third wife (1396) of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, whose first wife Blanche (d. 1368) is commemorated in Chaucer's ealrist major poem, The Book of the Duchess.

From 1374 Chaucer worked as controller of customs on wool in the port of London, but between 1366 and 1378 he made a number of trips abroad on official business, including two trips to Italy in 1372-3 and 1378. The influence of Chaucer's encounter with Italian literature is felt in the poems he wrote in the late 1370's and early 1380s—The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and a version of The Knight's Tale—and finds its fullest expression in Troilus and Criseyde.

In 1386 Chaucer was member of parliament for Kent, but in the same year he resigned his customs post, although in 1389 he was appointed Clerk of the King's Works (resigning in 1391). After finishing Troilus and his translation into English prose of Boethius' De consolatione philosphiae, Chaucer started his Legend of Good Women. In the 1390s he worked on his most ambitious project, The Canterbury Tales, which remained unfinished at his death. In 1399 Chaucer leased a house in the precincts of Westminster Abbey but died in 1400 and was buried in the Abbey.

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