The Divine Comedy; Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales

by Dante; Geoffrey Chaucer

Publishers:

Robert P. Gwinn; Encyclopedia Britannica

, 1990

Overview

The makers of Encyclopaedia Britannica bring you one of the Great Books of the Western World. This text captures major ideas, stories, and discoveries that helped shape Western culture.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Midway in the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost.^{1” (Page 1)}

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen; and this I take to be its quiddity.’” (Page 121)

“she pushed me back, little by little, to where the sun is silent.” (Page 1)

“‘All things have order among themselves, and this is the form that makes the universe like God.^{8” (Page 91)}

“I cannot rightly say how I entered it, I was so full of sleep at the moment I left the true way” (Page 1)

Product Details

• Title: The Divine Comedy; Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
• Authors: Dante, Geoffrey Chaucer
• Edition: Second Edition
• Series: Great Books of the Western World
• Volume: 19
• Publishers: Robert P. Gwinn, Encyclopedia Britannica
• Print Publication Date: 1990
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Literature › Collections; Dante Alighieri; Chaucer, Geoffrey
• ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
• Resource ID: LLS:GBWW19
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:11:14Z