Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale

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A collection of nine critical essays on Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale" arranged in chronological order of publication.
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177 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,2000

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Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world." After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.
Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided as the "school of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, and others). He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.


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I recently bought the Canterbury Tales book interpreted by Frank Ernest Hill. The Pardoner's Tale is by far my favorite tale in the book. I feel Chaucer has made a way of scaring God in to people by saying sin will be the demise of man (which, we all know of anyway). It's a great story, and has some humor in the fact that while two of the character are plotting to kill a third one, the third one is plotting to kill the duo. It's ironic - but it's a great story and so far my favorite one in the book!
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