| Value for Money | 6/10  |
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| Overall rating | 5/10 |
By tadload
on 15th Mar 2004
| Value for money | 6/10 |
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| Overall value | 5/10 |
 tadload's recommendation | |
Large compilation
Many works besides Cantebury Tales
Explanatory Notes
Glossary
Geoffrey Chaucer,F.N. Robinson, The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd Ed Review: I am taking the time to write this review after becoming so frustrated with the Tales that I couldn't go another minute without writing something about it.
The Explanatory Notes and the Glossary are extremely poorly done in this text. Not only are the lines numbered sequentially instead of numbered only when there is a note about the line, but time and time again the authors note the most obvious words for translation in the notes (soun = sound; northern lyght = light from the north) while much more obscure words are ignored, forcing the reader to turn to the Glossary - and good luck finding it there. It all makes for very tedious reading.
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