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Riverside Chaucer, paperback edition

g e o f f r e y c h a u c e r . o r g

an annotated guide to online resources
The purpose of this site is not to duplicate the vast amount of Chaucer material that has appeared on the internet in the last five years, but to sift and sort. Suggestions for additions are welcome.

what's new
Fixed CT search form on sidebar. Midsize link update (mended links to pages that had moved, deleted those that had expired, added some new sites on the basis of visitor suggestions); many thanks to Emily Gold of the Chaucer MetaPage. Reviewed and recommended in Choice magazine. Highly recommended: Daniel T. Kline's Electronic Canterbury Tales Project, a comprehensive guide to online texts and commentary, organized by tale. Here at geoffreychaucer.org: Site search engine now available. A new (albeit sparsely populated) section on sources and analogues. Multiple additions to the bibliography, biography, commentary, images, language, and teaching sections. Mark Allen and John H. Fisher's Essential Chaucer bibliography (1900-1984) is now online. New, more memorable URL: geoffreychaucer.org. Robinson's edition of the Canterbury Tales (hosted at the Michigan Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse) is now searchable from the side menu; expanded background section (general, culture, history, literature), more syllabi, new online texts. Site featured in the Scout Report for Social Sciences (December 15, 1998).

Please send comments to David Wilson-Okamura (East Carolina University) at david@virgil.org.

18 July 2006

  
 
The hardback edition of The Riverside Chaucer (1987) costs more than $60 (US) and weighs about eight pounds. Fortunately, there is a paperback edition that weighs less than two pounds. Unfortunately, it is available for sale only in the UK. Fortunately, it is now very easy to order foreign titles over the internet and let your credit card company worry about the currency exchange. Amazon UK, for instance, sells the book at a 20% discount, for a little under £13. If you add on the cost of overseas shipping, this comes to about $30 (US), depending on the exchange rate the day you order. To be sure, the paperback is not as durable as the hardback, and it's printed on cheaper paper; the type is also reduced to fit on a smaller page. On the other hand, you do get all the notes and commentary, and you won't break your back lugging the thing back and forth to class.