The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Clothbound Classics) image
ISBN-10:

0141393211

ISBN-13:

9780141393216

Released: Dec 29, 2015
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
to view more data

Description:

One of the great masterworks of English literature, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition

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 storytelling 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 love and the ebullient Wife of Bath’s Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation is rendered with consummate skill to retain all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English.











We're an Amazon Associate. We earn from qualifying purchases at Amazon and all stores listed here.