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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

A staple of assigned reading lists everywhere, this medieval masterpiece follows a group of strangers on a road trip to Canterbury, passing the time with a storytelling contest whose tales range from romantic to risqué.

Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English

A Penguin Classic

In 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 story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight’s account of courtly...