The miller's tale
Also known as The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham, Peter Ackroyd, Ted Stearn, V. A. Kolve & Glending Olson
- First published:
- 15th century
- Languages: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, ENM, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian
- Content type: FictionJuvenile
WREN APRIL WITH his showers sweet with fruit Whan that Aprille with his showers sote When the sweet showers of April have pierced WHEN APRIL with his showers sweet with fruit The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with liquor that has power The old saying goes, "In spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love." Whan that April with his showres soote Below the smoking walls of Thebes, two thousand men grappled, sword to sword and hand to hand.
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Initiatory orders and secret societies and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Freemasonry”. Retained metadata contains “Freemasonry” in the subject metadata and “Freemasonry” in the edition title.
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Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Tales”. Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the alternative title and “Tales” in the subject metadata.
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Editions
Open Library reports 722 editions; 2 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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Open Library record | 2007 | Oxford University Press | English |
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Lectures on the philosophy of freemasonry | 1915 | The National masonic research society | English, ENM | — | Public |
Subjects
- Early works to 1800
- Fiction
- Juvenile fiction
- Philosophy
- Freemasonry
- Poetry
- Biography
- Children's fiction
- Children's stories
- History and criticism
- Short Stories
- England
- English language
- Freemasons
- Death
- Commentaries
- Middle Ages
- Juvenile poetry
- Jews
- Large type books
- Criticism and interpretation
- Adaptations
- Diseases
- English literature
- English poetry
- Grammar
- Classic Literature
- manuscripts
- New York Times reviewed
- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Skönlitteratur
- Facsímiles
- Poetry (poetic works by one author)
- England, fiction
- Storytelling
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Children's stories, English
- talmud
- Textual Criticism
- Fiction, short stories (single author)
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- Open LibraryOL531742W (opens in a new tab)
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Cataloging notes
- Open Library reports 722 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Open Library reports 9 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL531742W
- Edition coverage
- Multi source partial
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