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Seller: The Blue Penguin, FRODSHAM, United KingdomThe Blue Penguin
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Dustwrapper, pp.xxxiv, 190. European humorous and farcical tales from the Middle Ages, often later drawn on by the likes of Chaucer, Boccaccio, Rabelais and Cervantes but here presented in their own right, with analysis and explanation where necessary in the long introduction by Professor Brewer. Wrapper top edge a little worn with several tiny splits. Some marks to cover along with the shadow of an old small price label. Binding and contents very clean. Fine in VG wrapper.
Seller Inventory # 010763
- Title
- Medieval Comic Tales
- Author
- Brewer, Derek ( Editor )
- Publisher
- Author, Cambridge
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0859914305
- ISBN 13
- 9780859914307
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
The tales in this collection come from France, Spain, Holland, Germany, Italy and England; they are of great cultural interest and considerable entertainment value, varying from humour to farce, from sophisticated literary parody to blunt ribaldry. Piety jostles blasphemy, and sex and death are everywhere good for a joke.
A first collection of comic tales, published in 1973, was a great success. Most of those tales plus many more appear here in this much enlarged edition.
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The Blue Penguin
FRODSHAM, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since August 27, 2003
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