Advance Title Information for Teachers, School Librarians, and Educational Distributors

From: ALAN WALKER MAY-AUGUST 2009 OMNIBUS Advance Title Information for Teachers, School Librarians, and Educational Distributors

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THE CANTERBURY TALES A Selection —Geoffrey Chaucer (Penguin Classics August 656 pp. 978-0-14-042445-4 $15.00) Check out our newest teacher’s guides Translated and Edited with an Introduction on our website at by Colin Wilcockson. Join the pilgrims on the www.us.penguingroup.com/tguides way to Canterbury with the General Prologue Read online, print, or download and nine tales presented in Middle English and for great activities to use in the classroom. modern prose translation. Features the original Look for new guides Incidents in the Life Middle English with facing-page modern prose of a Slave Girl, A Doll’s House, and translations. The introduction examines The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Chaucer’s life, work and literary influences.

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