ENGLISH

The Canterbury Tales

By Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
1958
ISBN
0140424385, 9780140424386
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1119276 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Pages
504\0
Time added
2020-09-29 11:13:22

Description

Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English. 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 love and the ebullient Wife of Bath’s Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. Rich and diverse, The Canterbury Tales offer us an unrivalled glimpse into the life and mind of medieval England.

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