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At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, in the London of the late 1300s, a band of men and women from all walks of life have gathered to begin a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket at Canterbury. To relieve the tedium of the journey, the host of the inn proposes that each of... Read Full Overview

Why be frightened of the most wonderful collection of tales ever written? No Fear: The Canterbury Tales makes it simple for students to love Chaucer's masterpiece in all its humor, bawdiness, and poignancy. It features the original text on the left-hand page, side-by-side... Read Full Overview

Hopper's rendering is as close, as word for word, as any translation of 'The Canterbury Tales'... --The New Yorker

In the tradition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Marie Borroff's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher's The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and... Read Full Overview

While Geoffrey Chaucer composed several magnificent works of poetry, his reputation as "the father of English literature" rests mainly on The Canterbury Tales , a group of stories told by assorted pilgrims en route to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. From... Read Full Overview

A selection of the best-loved and most frequently studied of The Canterbury Tales, presented in both Middle English and modern prose translation

Drawing from the same text as the complete Broadview edition of the Tales, which is based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript, this selected edition also features a critical introduction, marginal glosses in modern English of difficult words, and explanatory footnotes. The most... Read Full Overview

In the tradition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Marie Borroff's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Sheila Fisher's The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme... Read Full Overview

A selection of the best-loved and most frequently studied of The Canterbury Tales , presented in both Middle English and modern prose translation This collection is the perfect introduction to one of the cornerstones of English literature. The General Prologue provides picturesque... Read Full Overview

A group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral agree to pass the weary miles by taking turns at storytelling - thus begins English literature's greatest collection of chivalric romances, bawdy tales, fables, legends, and other stories.& & Translation into modern English verse... Read Full Overview

New, Unabridged on 5 Cd’s; Shrinkwrapped. Narrated by David Butler. A selection of eight stories with some words from the host and from Chaucer: The Miller’s Tale, The Reeve’s Tale, The Franklin’s Tale, The Words of the Host, The Pardoner’s Tale, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The... Read Full Overview