The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

ISBN: 0141393211

Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey

Condition: New

One of the great masterworks of English literature, in a gorgeous new clothbound editionIn The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories, and low farce. A storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knights account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Baths Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. Nevill Coghills masterly and vivid modern English verse translation is rendered with consummate skill to retain all the vigor and poetry of Chaucers fourteenth-century Middle English.