New Text and Critical Introduction Series

Great news.The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer has been published on Create Space and is available at Amazon. It has required several months of editing to create an interlinear translation of the text, but Ray hopes that readers will be able to develop a deeper understanding of the poem and appreciate it more fully through having everything the reader needs in one book!

Ray decided that his three medieval titles should form a new series…. the Text and Critical Introduction series:

The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer;
The Wife’s Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

There is also a new cover design for these three books to make them easy to distinguish from his Critical Introduction series. Note the new two-color front cover for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The new cover for The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale will appear shortly!

All three books in the Text and Critical Introduction series contain not only a commentary on the text but also the original text with a modernized interlinear version.

The Critical Introduction series only contains a modernization of the original medieval text together with the commentary.

Hopefully the new covers will enable readers to make the correct choice for the book that best satisfies their needs. The General Prologue will exist in both series, hence the need for a new cover design!