This book uniquely offers everything a reader needs to appreciate the text. It gives the reader a newly edited Middle English text with side-by-side modernization and a commentary. Also included are chapters on the General Prologue, the Structure of the Wife's Prologue and Tale, the Teller and the Tale, and a comparison with three other tales of the Knight and the Loathly Lady.

Everything the reader needs in a single volume This book is virtually unique in providing the Middle English text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with an interlinear translation together with a commentary. It also contains helpful illustrations. Separate chapters give a full analysis of the text and its background.

This Critical Introduction explores the main themes, characters and symbols of "The Great Gatsby"; the quest for a new life, the preoccupation with one's place in society, the desire for riches and the greatest dream of all human beings. In doing so it offers an interpretation which, unlike most analyses of this American Masterpiece, places Nick as the focus of Fitzgerald's attention. It includes a series of questions that helps the reader develop a deeper understanding of the story.

A critical introduction to "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen is suitable for students from high school up to university level as well as for the general reader. The book places the novel in the context of Austen's other works, analyzes the narrative voices, the manners of the times, marriage, and the importance of locations. The writer shows how both Darcy and Elizabeth, inadequate alone, completely complement each other.

The book is virtually unique in providing, in a single volume, a comprehensive analysis of The General Prologue which reflects the latest thinking. It places the work in the context of the social change in late fourteenth century England. The detailed reading of each section of the poem is supported by the author's own modernization of the text which enables the reader fully to understand Chaucer's Middle English. Also included, for purposes of comparison, are selections from contemporary writers such as Langland and Gower. The description of each pilgrim is analyzed in socio-historical terms, but emphasis is also placed on the writing as poetry. The author's aim is to give the reader the confidence to develop his/her own understanding of a work which is an essential part of the European literary heritage.