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Diary 21st and 22nd June 2018

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 25 Jun 18

Back from my long weekend away which went well though it was very exhausting. Going to Canterbury by train was way too expensive. An overnight coach ride was less than a quarter of the train fair so I went that way. It meant an...

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Diary Thursday 21st June 2018

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 21 Jun 18

I am glad today is the longest of the year as it has been very busy for me. My welfare hearing was at noon, so I got some vital shopping in, including a dear friend's birthday card on my way to see my new welfare officer. He...

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Diary 5th To 7th June 2018

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 7 Jun 18

Diary Tuesday 5th June 2018 Community centre food run day and we were given two huge heavy bags of near sell-by date discount food for the price of one, which has reduced my shopping bill enormously this month now. Diary...

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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Parsons Tale And Chaucers Retraction

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 31 May 18

The last, and longest story in the collection, and disgracefully, the second Canterbury tale which Penguin classics translator Nevill Coghill refused to include in his collection, as he did with The Tale of Melibee. As a result, I...

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Short Story Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Manciples Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 29 May 18

Pologue The Pilgrims are slowed down by a drunken cook, who is in danger of falling from his horse, as he is half asleep. The Host tries to get him to tell the next story, but is too inebriated to even begin, so the Host offers...

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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Canons Yeomans Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 25 May 18

Prologue - The Canon and his Yeoman were not with the rest of the Canterbury pilgrims when they first set off on their journey, but dramatically catch up with the party at this point in the narrative. The Yeoman boasts that the...

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Short Story Review Chaucer The Second Nuns Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 23 May 18

We have not had a story by the first Nun, who may be the one accompanying the priest who told The Nun’s Priest’s Tale. She is not mentioned in The Prologue introduction to the main characters at all. The Second Nun is fervently...

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Diary Tuesday 22nd May 2018

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 22 May 18

The heatwave has been nice so far but it was so hot today that it feels uncomfortable, sweaty, tiring, and over-powering. I got to the community centre for the first time in over a week as I missed attending last week due to the...

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Short Story Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Franklins Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 21 May 18

Spoiler alerts The Franklin, (a medieval land owner), has become impatient with the Squire’s Tale and has interrupted its endless narrative in mid-flow. He is now invited to tell a story himself. He quickly offers a romantic...

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Book Review Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Merchants Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 24 Mar 18

The Merchant appreciates the preceding Clerk’s Tale though he feels as if he cannot relate to it, as while Walter is cruel to Griselda in the story, the Merchant finds that it is his wife who is cruel to him. He talks as if he...

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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Clerks Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 14 Mar 18

Spoiler alerts A quiet, unassuming Clerk who has not spoken at all since the Pilgrims embarked on their journey to Canterbury is now called upon to give a story for the entertainment of his fellow travellers. He offers one of...

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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Pardoners Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 9 Mar 18

In direct reprisal for The Friar’s Tale about a corrupt Summoner being cast into Hell, The Summoner tells a story about a foolish Friar (monk). It I the rudest, most vulgar tale in the collection. In a Yorkshire village in a...

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Book Review – Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales - The Wife Of Baths Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 28 Feb 18

Following The Wife Of Bath’s Prologue Alison, (Alis) The Wife, begins her Tale in earnest, with a few drunken interruptions from the Pardoner and the Friar. She offers a story set in Arthurian legend, when fairies still...

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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales - The Wife Of Baths Prologue

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 28 Feb 18

Unusually, the Wife Of Bath’s Prologue is much longer than her story itself, and therefore it gets full page to itself here. The Wife, Alyson (or Alis), is one of Chaucer’s most likeable characters, and her Prologue and the...

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Book Review – Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales – The Pardoners Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 24 Feb 18

The Pardoner’s Prologue The devious Pardoner is proud and pompous, about his questionable sermonising and preaching skills, use of Latin, and his tendency to cite fake Papal Bulls easily. He also sells quack remedies and fake...

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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Physicians Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 18 Feb 18

The saddest and possibly most horrible story in the collection of tales told by the travellers on the Canterbury pilgrimage trail. Virginnius, a noble, and well-respected knight, has a lovely fourteen-year-old daughter, who is...

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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Nuns Priests Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 14 Feb 18

With a request for a lighter story to follow the Monk’s preceding catalogue of tragedy and death, a priest, Sir John, accompanying a young Nun to Canterbury, offers a suitable story. He claims it is true, though what he offers is...

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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Monks Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 8 Feb 18

Prologue The Host enjoyed Chaucer’s Tale Of Melibee much more than that preceding Chaucer’s Tale Of Sir Topaz but he feels that he cannot relate too easily to the wise Lady Prudence, as his own wife is a nagging old...

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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales – Melibee

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 2 Feb 18

When you buy a book you don’t expect the translator to leave out chapters and stories he dislikes, but that is exactly what Nevill Coghill does with the Tale of Melibee in the Penguin translation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. I...

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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales Sir Topaz

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 29 Jan 18

A superb early self parody, in which Chaucer humbly sends himself up something rotten. Having told the stories of several fellow pilgrims on the road to Canterbury, Chaucer now introduces his own story into the narrative, when he...

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