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To: Burkeman1
What memories! I'd forgotten about The Jungle...ughh!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was among my most hated as well.
Also despised what I read of Chaucer but that was in college.
202 posted on 11/01/2002 8:01:35 PM PST by DaughterofEve
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To: DaughterofEve
Please, give Mr. Chaucer another chance!

Get the Eckers translation if you want an accurate mirror of the Middle English. I have an older translation in "modern English prose" that is very readable and enjoyable, by R.M. Lumiansky. Or, just for fun, Geraldine McCaughean's adaptation for young readers (she manages to finesse the "Miller's Tale" neatly, but her "Death's Murderers" stands all on its own merits) illustrated superbly by one of my favorite British illustrators, Victor Ambrus. Ambrus's portrait of Chaucer is alone worth the price of admission, but his knights are knightly, his honest yeoman are stout and true, his ladies are lovely (although occasionally silly) and his Pardoner is absolutely slimey. Great artist.

206 posted on 11/01/2002 9:01:13 PM PST by AnAmericanMother
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To: DaughterofEve
Whan that april with its shorahs soote...

Dude, I love Chaucer. I had to memorize the intro to "Canterbury Tales" in Middle English from a prof. at Cal State Long Beach and it still stuns the brits I see here in Japan. Even they never learned any of that in English...
237 posted on 11/02/2002 3:09:59 PM PST by struggle
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