The Canterbury Tales" compiled in the late fourteenth century is an incisive portrait infused with Chaucer's wry wit & vibrant poetical language. He evokes a spectrum of colourful characters from the bawdy Wife of Bath to the gallant Knight the fastidious Prioress & the burly drunken Miller. As they wend their way from Southwark to Canterbury tales are told to pass the time & the stories are as diverse as the narrators encompassing themes such as adultery revenge courtly love lechery avarice & penitence. As humorous today as when it was written over six centuries ago " The Canterbury Tales" remains one of the most popular & enjoyable of the classic works of literature." ...

This selection of the best-loved & most frequently studied of Chaucers Canterbury Tales" provides a fascinating introduction to one of the great cornerstones of English literature. " The General Prologue" gives vivid character sketches of the colourful band of pilgrims who gather at a London inn on their way to Canterbury while the nine tales chosen range from the noble Knights story of rivalry in love to the boastful Pardoners moral treatise from the exuberant Wife of Baths Arthurian legend to the Millers worldly ribald farce. Incorporating every style of Medieval narrative
- bawdy anecdote allegorical fable & courtly romance
- the tales brought together here encompass the blend of universal human themes & individual personal detail that have fascinated readers for over 600 years. For this selection the original fourteenth-century Middle English is presented with a facing-page modern prose translation. This volume also contains a chronology further reading & an introduction examining Chaucers life & work & the literary influences on the Tales. It is translated & edited with an introduction by Colin Wilcockson."

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At the Tabard Inn in Southwark a jovial group of pilgrims assembles including an unscrupulous Pardoner a noble-minded Knight a ribald Miller the lusty Wife of Bath & Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned fantastic pious melancholy & lewd & together offer an unrivalled glimpse into the mind & spirit of medieval Engl&. ...

The atomic Flame Deluge was over. The earth was dead. All knowledge was gone. In a hellish barren desert a humble monk unearth a fragile link to a twentieth century civilization. A h&-written document from the Blessed Saint Leibowitz reads: Pound pastrami can kraut six bagels
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' An artist in my eyes is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never & will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 & the poetry of the young Rimbaud'
- Eric Cantona Football & art. Eric Cantona
- legend maverick troubled artist or just plain trouble
- never saw a need to make a distinction between the two. For all the heat & noise surrounding his infamous Crystal Palace 'kung-fu kick' it is for the sheer exuberant beauty of his play that Eric Cantona is chiefly remembered by English football fans. At Leeds United he transformed the team into title contenders but became a true talisman at Manchester United where to this day fans sing of ' King Eric'. & yet the effortless style of Cantona's play could not hide a darker side to his temperament. In his own words 'I play with passion & fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.' Leading French football journlist Philippe Auclair has interviewed over 200 key protagonists in Cantona's career searching for the man behind the myth. Marrying a deep knowledge of Cantona's impact on the pitch with soulful pin-sharp insight into the heart & inner thoughts of this most complex of characters this is nothing less than the definitive biography of a one-time rebel of the French game who rose to be the King of Old Trafford. 'I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside Cantona in a big European match at Old Trafford'
- George Best.



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Rachel Doyle presents an expert guide to canvaswork &

Includes:: complete information on the major stitches

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Shari Afton is a kennel owner in rural Oregon where she trains dogs. Her newest customer is sexy mysterious Maco Durant a cattle rancher from Wyoming who wants to purchase two of her Dobermans. Shortly before her arrival Shari is shot by an unseen assailant possible a poacher & an armed Maco comes to her rescue. Clearly he knows his way around guns horses...and women. As Shari & Maco grow closer the search for the identity of Sharis attacker suspecting an extremist environmentalist group who are angry about a local dam that Macos brother is building. As the sexual tension between the two escalates so does the threat of danger leading to the reveal of a killer with extremely personal ties to Sharis past ...

Charlotte Enright owner of a small antiques shop called Looking Glass Antiques on Rainshadow Island & Slade Attridge the communitys new chief of police both have something in common: they possess strong paranormal talents. They met several years ago when they were in their teens spending the summer on the isl&. Slade saved Charlotte from a gang of drunken toughs but then at the end of the summer Slade & Charlotte went their separate ways & started their adult lives. Now fifteen years later they have both been drawn back to Rainshadow Isl&. They will discover the adult passion they have for each other & start to explore some of the mysteries of the forbidden section of the island known only as the Preserve. ...

The name Lancelot Capability Brown has become synonymous with the eighteenth-century English landscape garden: between 1751 & 1783 his consultancy handled over 170 major commissions. Ruthlessly efficient he could stake out the capabilities of a particular terrain within an hour on horseback. Rising to the position of Master Gardener to George III his trademark features included bald lawns clumped trees lakes & enclosing belts of woodland on the estates perimeter. With this standard park formula Brown & his followers held the commercial monopoly on garden design well into the following century resisting the more rugged topography advocated by Richard Payne Knights new generation of Romantics. ...

Jose Raul Capablanca was a chess legend world champion & quite simply one of the greatest players in the history of the game. His achievements & seemingly effortless style of play won many admirers & his legacy

Includes:: a treasure of instructive games. Studying Capablancas play is a must for any aspiring chess player. For Cyrus Lakdawala it was a key factor in his chess development & improvement & in this book he revisits many of his favourite Capablanca games. Lakdawala examines Capablancas skills in the key areas of attack defence counter-attack exploiting imbalances accumulating advantages & of course his legendary endgame play. Move by Move provides an ideal platform to study chess. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning & practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of knowledge. Carefully selected questions & answers are designed to keep you actively involved & allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to improve your chess skills & knowledge. * Learn from the games of a chess legend * Important ideas absorbed by continued practice * Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study

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