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The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer - Author

Nevill Coghill - Translator

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ISBN 9780140424386 | 528 pages | 04 Feb 2003 | Penguin Classics | 5.07 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
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Chaucer's bawdy, pious, erudite, absurd, ragic, comic collection

With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature.

Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth century that is as robust as it is representative.

Translated by Nevill Coghill

The Canterbury Tales: A Selection Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Translation, Text and Illustrations

The Canterbury Tales

The General Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Prologue and Tale
The Reeve's Prologue and Tale
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
The Merchant's Prologue, Tale and Epilogue
The Franklin's Prologue and Tale
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale

‘Nevill Coghill’s easy, seductive translation ensures that this, the most popular work in English Literature – now 600 years old – will run through yet more centuries, delighting yet more readers, shaping more writers’ 
Melvyn Bragg